Matching Pairs IV LEVEL UNIT 7 I AM FLUENT IN ENGLISH Lesson 4 AOnline version Reading comprehension by Martha Uribe 1 What did a fisherman bring to the caliph’s palace? 2 What did the caliph do with the chest? 3 What did Ja’far do? 4 What was inside the chest? 5 Where had the fisherman found it? 6 Who was the actual murderer? 7 What would happen to Ja’far if he didn’t solve it in the allotted time? 8 What happened on the third day? 9 How long did the king give Ja’far to solve the mystery? 10 Who did the king ask to investigate the murder? in the Tigris River He sat alone in his room and worried. He would be executed. He bought it and ordered it to be pried open. the body of a young woman who had been murdered a large, heavy chest Two men came to the palace trying to confess to the murder. his vizier, Ja’far ibn Yahya The woman’s husband. three days 1 What did he do after killing his wife? 2 How was his wife’s health by then? 3 Where did the slave say he got the apple? 4 Why did he place her body in a chest and throw in the river? 5 What did the young man see in the market a few days after his return? 6 What did she ask him for? 7 How long did the trip take? 8 How did the young man react to the slave’s story? 9 Where did he get the apple? 10 What had happened to the young man’s wife? to hide his deed from his girlfriend, whose husband had traveled two weeks to get it from the caliph’s garden. She had become too ill to eat anything. from the caliph’s garden She had become ill and couldn’t eat well. a special kind of apple that could not be found in any market or shop. he hid his wife’s body in a chest and threw it into the river. two weeks He went home to see how many apples were missing, and upon finding that one was missing, he killed his wife in a rage. a slave carrying one of the apples. 1 What did Ja’far decide to do? 2 What did he beg the caliph to do? 3 How many days did he give Ja’far? 4 What made finding the slave difficult? 5 What would happen if Ja’far couldn’t find the slave after three days? 6 Why was the boy crying? 7 How did the young man feel? 8 What did the caliph decide to do instead? 9 What did the young man find upon his return? He would be executed. his son crying in his room. execute him He regretted what he’d done. accept that his fate was to die because he had taken one of the apples to the marketplace and had it stolen by the slave after telling him the story of how his father had gotten it. three days to have Ja’far find the slave who had caused so much tragedy instead. There were no clues or hints about who he was.
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