Reading Comprehension

Messages Fuchsia 2
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1. The word charlatan in Paragraph 1 means someone who:
(a) pretends to know things

2. You could conclude from the text that DAd:
(c) Think fortune tellers may know things others dont

3. After Dad's mother found the bankbook, she:
(c) went to the dry cleaners

4. Glad and Dad's grandmother were similar because they were:
(a)about the same age.

5. After listening to Dad, Juan's attitude about clairvoyants most likely:
(c) be more positive

6. The main idea of paragraph 3 is that dad is:
(c) not imaginative 

7. Which sentence summarises why Juan was angry and stormed inside?
(c) The girls had kept him waiting and he thought they'd been foolish.

8. Dad's mother is his uncle's
(a) sister

9. Dad's mother's brother kept phoning Dad's mother because:
(b) Glad kept insisting that he did so. 

10. It is a fact, not an opinion, that fortune teller:
(c) tell people about what they think will happen in the future

11. The text was written to:
(a) tell a story

12. Ellie is now most likely to believe the fortune teller she went to was:
(b) right

13. The missing bankbook would probably have been important to Dad's grandmother because she:
(a) won the money herself

14. The pronoun it in Paragraph 7 refer to the:
(b) bankbook

Rust 2
Nelson Mandela

1. The word reconciliation in Paragraph 2 means:
(b) harmony

2. What was different about the law firm of Mandela and Tambo?
(a) It helped black South Africans who couldn't afford to pay for legal help

3.Which words provide the best summary of Nelson Mandela's character?
(c) wise and determined

4.You could predict any project Mandela supported would be like to:
(c) be highly successful

5. The main idea of paragraph 1 is that Mandela was
(c) inspiring

6. Which statement would Mandela have been most likely to agree with?
(a) Nothing is ever achieved by violence.

7. People around the world asked Mandela for advice because:
(B) they admired his achievements and his character.

8: Mandela was given the name Nelson by his:
(c) teacher

9 You could conclude from the text that FW de Klerk:
(a) also worked hard for peace

10. It is a fact, not an opinon, that Mandela:
(B) was president of South Africa

11. The text was written to:
(a) tell a story

12. The first thing Mandela did was to
(b) go to Johannesburg

13. Mandela was different from Tambo because he:
(a) won a nobel prize

14. The pronoun  them in paragraph 4 refers to:
(c) Mandela and Tambo

Rust 7-Double You

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