Questions in this chapter

Napoleon Bonaparte's ambition to control all the area around the Mediterranean Sea led him and his French soldiers to Egypt. After losing a naval battle, they were forced to remain there for three years. In 1799, while constructing a fort, a soldier discovered a piece of steel (stone pillar bearing an inscription) know as the Rosetta stone. This famous stone, which would eventually lead to the deciphering of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics dating to 3100 B. C., was written in three languages : hieroglyphics (picture writting), demotic ( a shorthand version of hieroglyphics), and Greek, Scientists discovered that the characters, unlike those in English, could be written from right to left and in other directions as well.

Twenty-three years after discovery of the Rosetta stone, Jean Francois Champollion, a French philologist, fluent in several languages, was able to decipher the fast word --------- Ptolemy --- name of an Egyption ruler. This name was written inside an oval called a "cartouche". Further investigation revealed that cartouches contained names of important people of that period. Champollion painstakingly continued his search and was able to increase his growing list of known phonetic signs. He and an Englishman Thomas Young, worked independently to each other to unravel the deeply hidden mysteries of this strange language; Young believed that sound values could be assigned to the symbols, while Champollion insisted the pictures represented words.

How many years elapsed between the date of the oldest hieroglyphics deciphered by means of the Rosetta stone and the stone's discovery?

The verb form of the noun 'humanity' is:

The noun of the word "Transcend' is-

The verb form of the word 'Poor' is-

Verb of 'Honour' is-

Find the noun form of 'wide':

My uncle has three sons, ---- work in the same office.

Correct the underlined words of the sentence. The intruder stood quietly for few moments.

No ---- than twenty boys failed in a class of fifty.

There are thirty people in the room. Twenty are from Asia, and -- are from --- countries.

"This is the book of which I told you". Here the word 'which' is used as-

He is a fast learner. Here 'fast' is:

The facilities of the older school.......

His brother is --- he looks.

The movie titled The English Patient--- the audience heavily.

'He has a lot of influence in the community.' What is the verb form of the underlined word?

Identify the 'part of speech of the underlined word: He never made any mention of the matter that would matter later.

The girl looks happy. Here 'look' is-

I spent ......with the patient.

The dog is quite dead. The underlined word is a/an: