Read the excerpt from "Tools of the Spymaster."
Which statement contains explicit information from the text?
General Clinton, concerned about what General Howe was
planning and doing, made use of a mask to write a secret
message in a letter to General Burgoyne.
General Howe was a complete failure during the war.
General Burgoyne was a better officer than General
Howe.
General Clinton sent a letter to General Burgoyne by
messenger
General Clinton used a mask to write a secret message,
Before writing the letter, Clinton had placed an hourglass
shaped mask on a piece of paper and then had formed the
secret message within that shape.
The unmasked letter had enough false information in it to fool
any American who happened to see it. But when Burgoyne
viewed the letter with the mask, he read Clinton's view of the
real situation: Howe has made a bad move; I don't have
enough men to do anything about it