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