Cocoloco

Comprehension Test
A Morbid Taste for Bones
Ellis Peters
1 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
a Brother Cadfael usually worked in the abbey kitchens.
b Brother Colombanus got easily excited.
c Brother Cadfael was English.
d Engelard was English.
e When Rhisiart was found dead there was an arrow in his heart.
f The monks prayed at night inthe chapel.
g Brother John hit Cai on the head when he escaped from the house.
h Engelard killed Colombanus.
i The monks took the bones back to the abbey.
j John and Annest married.
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2 Put the following events in the right order. Number them 1-10.
a The monks tell the villagers that they want Winifred’s bones.
b __ The monks begin theirjourney to Wales.
c Prior Robert offers money to Rhisiart.
d The monks return to Shrewsbury.
e __ Jerome dreams about Winifred's holy well.
f Bened visits Cadfael in Shrewsbury.
g Colombanus is killed.
h Rhisiart is killed.
i Brother Jerome and Brother Colombanus go to Holywell.
j The monks arrive in Gwytherin.
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3 Who said this?Who did they say it to? Rhisiart, Prior Robert, Brother Cadfael, Bened, Abbot Heribert, Sioned.
a ‘Saint Winifred is calling to us to save her from that place.’ ……………….. to ………………..
b 'I'm surprised that you speak English as well as I do.’ …………….. to ………………….
c ‘You offer to buy our saint?’ ……………….. to ………………..
d 'And that's why that piece of grass remained dry.’ ………………… to ………………….e ‘I’ll see you in Shrewsbury one day.’ ……………….. to ………………..
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4 Who said this? Engelard, Prior Robert, Sioned, Peredur, Brother John.
a ‘Do you really think I would kill, and then leave my arrow behind?’ ………………..
b ‘I gave him his chance, and good luck to him.’ ………………..
c ‘The opinions of the local people are surely not important.’ ………………..
d ‘And will those praying theresay one prayer for him?’ ………………..
e ‘I – I found him dead.’ ………………..
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5 Who, in the story . . . Brother John, Rhisiart, Prior Robert, Engelard.
a . . . helped a ploughman? ………………..
b . . . was a rich farmer whose wife was dead? ………………..
c . . . tried to bribe Rhisiart? ………………..
d . . . helped Engelard to escape? ………………..
e . . . married Annest? ………………..
10 marks6. Fill in the gaps. Use these words: bones, relics, journey, coffin, village, Colombanus, bones, reliquary, grave, gardens.
Brother Cadfael works in the abbey …………………, with Brother John and Brother ……………………. . When the monks go on a ………………. to find the ……………………. of Saint Winifred, Cadfael goes with them. They arrive in the ……………………. of Gwytherin, open the Saint's ………………………….. and put the……………………….. in a …………………………… . But they do not take the ……………………….. back to Shrewsbury - there is another body in the ………………… .
20 marks

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Multiple-choice Test
A Morbid Taste for Bones
Ellis Peters

Setting
Choose the best answer.
1 A Morbid Taste for Bones is set in the _____ century.
a [ ] twelfth b [ ] sixteenth c [ ] nineteenth d [ ] twentieth
2 Themonks all live at Shrewsbury Abbey in _____.
a [ ] Scotland b [ ] England c [ ] Wales d [ ] Ireland
3 The monks go to visit the village of Gwytherin in _____.
a [ ] Scotland b [ ] England c [ ] Wales d [ ] Ireland
4 When Brother Cadfael was younger he was _____.
a [ ] a taxi driver b [ ] a teacher c [ ] married d [ ] a sea captain
5 _____wants to go to Gwytherin to get the relics of a saint.
a [ ] Brother Cadfael b [ ] Prior Robert c [ ] Abbot Heribert d [ ] Brother John
6 Brother Cadfael goes with the monks to Gwytherin because he can _____.
a [ ] ride fast b [ ] walk fast c [ ] speak Welsh d [ ] speak English
7 Rhisiart and the other people in Gwytherin _____ the relics of the saint....