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Reading Questions

Choose the best answer.

1. Who built the Bronze Horseman?
a. Catherine the Great
b. Etienne Maurice Falconet

c. President Putin
d. Marin Carburi

2. Which of these happened first?

a. Catherine the Great ordered it to be built.
b. Peter the Great sits heroically on his horse.
c. Marin Carburi headed the project to move the stone.

d. Falconet wanted to work on it in its original location of the stone.

3. The Thunder Stone is also famous because
a. it is believed to be the largest stone ever moved by men

b. it was imported from India
c. it was a gift from the French royal family
d. it was struck by thunder

4. Catherine the Great is from Germany but Etienne Maurice Falconet is

from
a. France
b. Italy
c. Greece

d. India

5. What will tourists probably do when they visit Saint Petersburg?
a. take pictures of the Bronze Horseman

b. write their names on the Bronze Horseman
c. camp around the Bronze Horseman
d. all of the above

6. In the passage, the word heroically means
a. bravely
b. cowardly

c. madly
d. happily

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