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Decoding Activity Answer Key

1) The document contains two passages encrypted with the Caesar cipher and Pigpen cipher respectively. 2) The first passage describes a run-down pawn shop and lawn mower repair business in cryptic terms when decrypted with the Caesar cipher. 3) The second passage uses nature imagery like an owl and its surroundings in a cryptic way when decrypted with the Pigpen cipher.

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Decoding Activity Answer Key

1) The document contains two passages encrypted with the Caesar cipher and Pigpen cipher respectively. 2) The first passage describes a run-down pawn shop and lawn mower repair business in cryptic terms when decrypted with the Caesar cipher. 3) The second passage uses nature imagery like an owl and its surroundings in a cryptic way when decrypted with the Pigpen cipher.

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Activity: Chapter 12 Decrypted Messages

Decoding – Caesar Cipher and Pigpen Cipher

Single Shift Caesar Cipher (50 Points):


"Billy Ray's Pawn Shop and Lawn Mower Repair looked like a burial ground for country auction
rejects. The blazing, red, diesel fuel tanks beamed in front of the station, looking like cheap
lipstick against the pallid, wrinkled texture of the parking lot sand. The yard, not much larger
than the end zone at General G. Patton High School on the north end of town, was framed with a
rusted metallic hedge of lawn mowers, banana seat bicycles, and corroded oil drums. It wasn't a
calico frame of rusted parts, but rather an orchestra of unwanted machinery that Billy Ray had
arranged into sections. The yellow-tanked mowers rested silently at the right of the diesel fuel.
Once red, now faded orange, mowers stood at attention to the left. The oil barrels, jaded and
pierced with holes, bellared like chimes when the wind was right. The bikes rested sporadically
throughout the lot. In the middle of it all was the office, a faded, steel roof supported by cheap
two-by-fours and zebra paneling. Billy Ray was at home, usually, five blocks east of town on
Kennel Road."

Pigpen Cipher (50 Points):


"Like his twisted feathers, his many scars, the reliable old owl chose the gnarled, weather-beaten,
but solid branch often - it being a companion to the wise alone with the night and the last branch
to creak in the heaviest wind. He often came to survey the fields and the clouds before his hunt,
to listen to the steady sound of the stream passing through reeds under the bridge, while combing
his feathers for the unwanted - whatever they might be."

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