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Reading Questions

Choose the best answer.

1. What countries experienced the climate change?
a. China
b. America

c. Ireland
d. all of the above

2. What information was given first in the article?

a. The 10,000 residents of Sumbawa were killed instantly.
b. In Europe and Great Britain, the summer of 1816 was damp and dark.
c. The bad weather and crop failures affected migration in the United States

and contributed to the establishment of two new states.
d. Hunger also contributed to the spread of typhus, which killed thousands as
it spread through Britain in late 1816.

3. Due to the volcano’s powerful eruption, what happened around the world?

a. People all over the world started donating goods to the island.
b. Ten thousands of volunteer workers came rushing to help.
c. The world experienced a climate change.
d. all of the above

4. What happened because of crop failures around the world?
a. famine
b. poverty

c. disease
d. all of the above

5. What would happen if such a volcano were to erupt again?

a. It would still have the same impact on the planet, but people would be
better prepared.
b. Today’s technology would stop the volcano from erupting.

c. Nobody would know what to do.
d. Volcanic mountains don’t erupt, because they’re all dormant.

6. Which sentence uses the word failed in the same way it is used in the
article?

a. Jimmy failed his yearly examination.
b. The experiment failed due to poor planning.
c. The flowers failed for lack of rain.
d. I will visit you without fail tomorrow.

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