Reading Comprehension (Prose and Poem)

Reading Comprehension

By Smriti Pradhan

​Long, long ago there lived far away in India a woodcutter called Subha Datta with his family. They were all very happy together. The father went every day to the forest near his home to get supplies of wood, which he sold to his neighbours, earning by that means quite enough to give his wife and children all that they needed. Sometimes he took his three boys with him, and now and then, as a special treat, his two little girls were allowed to trot along beside him.

Multiple Choice

When did this story take place?

• Long, long ago

• Yesterday

• Today

• I don't know

​Long, long ago there lived far away in India a woodcutter called Subha Datta with his family. They were all very happy together. The father went every day to the forest near his home to get supplies of wood, which he sold to his neighbours, earning by that means quite enough to give his wife and children all that they needed. Sometimes he took his three boys with him, and now and then, as a special treat, his two little girls were allowed to trot along beside him.

Multiple Choice

Where did Subha Datta live?

• In India

• In the forest

• I don't know

​Long, long ago there lived far away in India a woodcutter called Subha Datta with his family. They were all very happy together. The father went every day to the forest near his home to get supplies of wood, which he sold to his neighbours, earning by that means quite enough to give his wife and children all that they needed. Sometimes he took his three boys with him, and now and then, as a special treat, his two little girls were allowed to trot along beside him.

Multiple Choice

Find a word of similar meaning for 'treat.'

• Treasure

• Treatment

• Outing

• Pouting

​Long, long ago there lived far away in India an old woodcutter called Subha Datta with his family. They were all very happy together. The father went every day to the forest near his home to get supplies of wood, which he sold to his neighbours, earning by that means quite enough to give his wife and children all that they needed. Sometimes he took his three boys with him, and now and then, as a special treat, his two little girls were allowed to trot along beside him.

Multiple Choice

Identify the adjective.

There lived far away in India an old woodcutter.

• There

• away

• old

• woodcutter

Multiple Choice

Change into simple present.

'There lived in India an old woodcutter.'

• There lives in India an old woodcutter.

• There lived in India an old woodcutter

• They were all very happy together.

• I don't know

Multiple Choice

Change into question form.

They were all very happy together.

• What they were all happy together?

• Did they were all happy together?

• Weren't they all very happy together?

• Will they be happy together?

​The beauty of the strength within

As she held her head up high.

Her strong resilient spirit

Grew wings and learned to fly.

-​Gabby Mac

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Multiple Choice

Which word in the poem rhymes with high?

• within

• spirit

• fly

• I don't know

​The beauty of the strength within

As she held her head up high.

Her strong resilient spirit

Grew wings and learned to fly.

-​Gabby Mac

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Multiple Choice

Name the figure of speech used in the given line of the poem.

As she held her head up high.

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

• I don't know