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RH.CCS.7 Grades 6-12: Students are asked to locate a country or geographical area on a map, connecting information with a specific location. Then, students answer a series of quiz questions based on a current news event happening in that location. Students must combine their prior knowledge with information presented in the question to determine the correct answers.

Easter Island leader says Moai statue might be better left in British Museum -- 12/17/2018

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Q: The mayor of the Chile’s Easter Island territory said last week that the British Museum might be a better home for a massive native statue taken by British seamen 150 years ago. The remote island is more than 2,000 miles from Chile’s mainland. Where is Chile?

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Q: Chilean officials and some other island dignitaries recently went to London to seek the return of the stone statue on display at the museum. The statue is one of hundreds of “Moai” carved by which people who first settled the island?

A. Incas

B. Mayans

C. Polynesians

D. Spanish



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