Reading comprehension, Charcoal 2, Mummies of the peat bogs

A peat bog is a type of wetland in which the water is acidic and brown in colour. the cold, acidic, oxygen free conditions prevent decay and mummify flesh.

key
o guess
x wrong answer
v right answer
oo correct answer

Questions

1. In Paragraph 4 the word, garrotte, could be replaced with:
a. Skin
b. Scarf  o x
c. Rope  v

2. The second of the four bog men to be discovered was:
a. Oldcroghan man
b. Tollund man
c. Lindow man  oo

3. Although none of the men died of natural causes, only Tollund man was not:
a. Executed
b. Tortured  oo
c. Guilty

4. It is an opinion not a fact that the bog men where:
a. Pagan sacrifices  oo
b. all men
c. killed

5. all men lived at some time in the
a. Common Era
b. Iron Age  v
c. 12th century  o x

6. the main idea of paragraph 2 is to describe:
a. how the men died
b. what mummification is
c. what a peat bog is and why it can preserve a body  oo

7. if the conditions of the peat bog preserve bodies, when they are taken from the bog they would:
a. Begin to decay  oo
b. Stay the same
c. Disappear

8. We know that trade occurred in the iron age in western Europe because:
a. Clonycavan man wore hair gel
b. The hair gel contained tree resin
c. The hair gel resin came from trees in Spain and France, not Ireland  oo

9. the bog men were preserved because:
a. they were pagan sacrifices
b. the conditions of the prevent decay  oo
c. they were criminals

10. The text is a:
a. factual report v
b. fairytale narrative
c. biographical report  o x

11. We can conclude from the text that although scientists can determine how the bog men died they __________ why they were killed:
a. do not care
b. can not determine  oo
c. are afraid to discover

12. In Paragraph 3 the pronoun they refers to the:
a. seeds and vegetables
b. special techniques
c. scientists  oo

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