Comprehension Cards

Fuchsia 1   14/14

1.The word aristocrats in Paragraphs 3 and 5 refer to...
C wealthy landowners.

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 'Rain of Terror' lasted for about a...
B A year

5. The Novel about the Scarlet Pimpernel was written ____ 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 the 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 the...
B Thousands of aristocrats.

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.

Rust 1     14 /14

1. The word eradicate in Paragraph 4 means to...
B Get rid of

2. The main idea of the text is that...
A Many species welcomed into Australia are now pests.

3. After myxomatosis was introduced, Australian authorities tried...
C Rabbit calicivirus

4. Cane toads are different from koi because they...
A Are very poisonous

5. It is most likely that the effect of koi herpesvirus on native species will be...
C Carefully tested

6. You could conclude from the text that the writer...
C Cares about native fauna

7. Which sentence summarises what Paragraph 3 says about feral mammals...
C They survive by destroying land and native fauna and flora

8. Introduced species are called guests because they were...
A Welcome

9. Rabbits in dry areas survived myxomatosis because...
B There were fewer mosquitoes

10.It is an opinion, not fact, that cane toads are...
A Repulsive

11. The text was written to...
B Give information

12. The word retard in Paragraph 6 means to...
A Slow down

13. Cane toads were failure because they...
C Didn't eat the beetles

14. The pronoun they in Paragraph 4 refers to...
C Cane toads