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English, 27.10.2020 01:20, kyleescott9525

Highlight word choices that show viewpoint in the passage. But Kircher’s ideas about the hieroglyphs themselves were even farther off the mark than those of Horapollo. Looking at a certain group of symbols—which actually stood for the name of a pharaoh—Kircher let his imagination run wild
. . . From 1650 onward, Kircher produced several volumes of such nonsense.

—The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone,
James Cross Giblin

Based on the passage, what is the author’s view of Kircher’s ideas?

His ideas were better than Horapollo’s.
His ideas are the same as the author’s.
His ideas were the same as the pharaoh’s.
His ideas were worse than Horapollo’s.

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