Which two statements most likely express the author’s purpose for using a flashback in this excerpt?to show that the narrator was inactive in classto show that the narrator was interested in numbersto show the narrator's childhood dreamto show how the narrator tries to persuade his/her father to let him/her become an artistto show how the narrator tries to persuade the teacher to let him/her become an artistReset

From his studies of coptic, champollion knew that the egyptian word for "sun" was pronounced rah. he wrote down the first two letters of that sound, ra. next he put a question mark for the unknown middle hieroglyph. then, at the end, he wrote ss, the sound of the last two hieroglyphs. he studied the combination: ra ? ss. suddenly he remembered a famous pharaoh whose name appeared in ancient greek chronicles and also in the biblical book of exodus: rameses, or ramesses. could this be a hieroglyphic representation of ramesses' name? based on the excerpt, what detail did champollion need to conclude that the hieroglyphics might represent ramesses’s name?

Which is these is an example of circular reasoning

Who is generally considered a postmodern author