Comprehension Box

Denim 4 - Stinkiest Jobs in History
1. The word stool in paragraph 3 means:
C - bowel movements

2. What part of the contents of human urine was useful in cleaning wool?
C - ammonia

3. The process of removing fur from a hide is the main idea of:
C - paragraph 4

4. What did the tanner have to do to the hide before removing the fur?
A - remove fat and meat

5. What do both a tanner and fuller use in creating their product?
C - urine

6. Which of the jobs did not involve faeces (bowel movements)?
A - fuller

7. If a man was walking the streets with a shovel and container, he would most likely be collecting:
B - dog faeces

8. You can conclude that the king ____ the groom of the stool.
B - trusted

9. Which of the following is a fact, not an opinion?
C - urine was used in medieval times by tanners and fullers

10. Why would the groom of the stool use his bare hands to wipe the king's bottom?
B - toilet paper was not used in those times

11. What cause the tanneries to be located far from the town centre?
B - the smells created during the tanning process were unpleasant

12. Which sentence summarises the supply and use of dog droppings by tanners?
C - Tanners soaked hides in a mix of dog droppings collected by pure collectors.

13. This text was written to:
A - inform

14. The pronoun them in paragraph 1 refers to:
C - jobs

Fuchsia 1 - The Elusive Scarlet Pimpernel
1. The word aristocrats in Paragraph 3 and 5 refer to:
C - wealthy land owners

2. The French revolution occurred because the common people:
B - were starving while the aristocrats lived in luxury

3. Madame Guillotine was:
A - used to chop off people's heads

4. The 'Reign of Terror' lasted for about a:
B - year

5. The novel about the Scarlet Pimpernel was written ____ during the French Revolution.
C - more than 100 years after

6. If an aristocrat begged for 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 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 refers to:
B - thousands of arsitocrats

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 - a small red flower

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 likely to:
C - be highly successful

5. The main idea of paragraph 1 is that Mandela was:
B - an interesting person

6. Which statement would Mandela have been most likely to agree with?
C - violence should only be used when nothing else has worked

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 opinion, that Mandela:
B - was president of South Africa

11. The text was written to:
B - give information

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