Reading comprehension quiz

(adapted from a test developed by Dr Alaistair Allan)

Instructions

This exercise contains vocabulary that you may never have seen before. However, it is still possible to answer the questions successfully by using skills and initiatives.
Each question has four choices. Only ONE is correct for each question. Decide what you think is the correct choice for each question. [Hints] [Printer-friendly version]
1. The doctor who discovered the cause of leprosy was Hansen. This horrifying disease which has ruined the lives of thousands of people is sometimes known as
2. Mr Brown's dismissal caused the union's Grievance Committee to
3. Charles Dickens' book "Hard Times" is about
4. This connoisseur does not collect objects like these because they
5. The bark of the silver birch tree
6. Elizabeth Blackwell was
7. Of all the board games, Caissa's is
8. He explained that "dormilona" referred to a
9. Everyone agrees that he is a similitude of his father. This means
10. There are many osteomancers but only one of them
11. Someone suffering from hemeralopia
12. A silver birch is a
13. He is suffering from malacia so he
14. When you see a marinorama you are looking at a
15. The most common form of recreation in Erewhon is
16. The Karamajong tribesmen were easily frightened by the soldiers because they were
17. The Olympian did not win because she
18. Caissa invented a
19. Malacia is a
20. A writer who composes a cycle of legends is
21. The Karamajong tribesmen were
22. The boy who rescued his sister from drowning was
23. The student practised by auscultating an
24. Sidney and Beatrice Webb wrote many epistles to each other so they were skilled in the art of
25. The book states that all cases of amphicrania
26. The hunters chose that part of the forest because it
27. The use of a chemical agent to obtain a result usually obtained by surgery is referred to as
28. The dispute between the two countries was settled by an
29. The Boating Club is
30. Hemeralopia is a
31. Sidney Webb's wife was called
32. The Saint Andrew Society headquarters are situated in
33. Amphicrania is clearly described in
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