Reading comprehension

Mystery of the school hall

1. (a) Fearful

2. (b) Mr Donati

3. (a) memorable

4.(a) gangly assortments

5. (a) th chairs

6. (b) tedious

7. (c) distracted

8.  (b) haunted

9. (c) entertain

10. (a) beneficial

11.(b) doors started slamming

12. (c) establish the background about the school premises,

13. (b) mentions the theatre and the magic club at the end of his speech.

14.
(a) his attention was captured by the trick with the skeletal fingers.

Fuchsia 1

The elusive scarlet pimpernel
1 The word aristcrats in Paragraph 3 and 5 refer to:
(c) wealthy landowners

2. The french revolution occurred because of the common people
(c) paid heavy taxes to the king

3. Madame Guillotine was:
(a) used to chop off people's head

4. The 'Reign of Terror' lasted for 
(b) year

5. The novel about the Scarlet Pimpernel was written__The french revolution
(c) more than 100 years after

6. If an aristocraft begged fro his life at the guillotine, the crowd would probably have shouted
(a) off with his head

7. We can conclude that the common people revolted against the ruling classes because they were:
(c) desperate

8. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel rescued French noblemen and women because of they:
(a) felt a loyalty towards them

9. The Scarlet Pimpernel was written as a work of
(b) fiction

10. It is a fact, not an opinion, that thousands of French nobility were:
(a) executed by guillotine

11. An adjective which might be used in a summary of the French Revolution is:
(c) brutal

12. In Paragraph 3, the pronoun they refer to the:
()crowd

13. Sir Percy and his wife's brother are similar because they both:
(c) are in danger

14. The Scarlet Pimpernel was named after:
(a) small red flower