BOOK CLUB - Reading Comprehension - for the 6th grade (Fantastic Mr Fox)

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"Down in the valley there were three farms. The owners of these farms (...) were rich men. They were also nasty men. All three of them were about as nasty and mean as any men you could meet. Their names were Farmer Boggis, Farmer Bunce and Farmer Bean.

Boggis was a chicken farmer. He kept thousands of chickens. He was enormously fat. This was because he ate three boiled chickens smothered with dumplings every day for breakfast, lunch and supper. Bunce was a duck-and-goose farmer. He kept thousands and ducks and geese. He was a kind of pot-bellied dwarf. He was so short his chin would have been under water in the shallow end of any swimming-pool in the world. His food was doughnuts and goose livers. He mashed the livers into a disgusting paste and then stuffed the paste into the doughnuts. This diet gave him tummy-aches and a beastly temper. Bean was a turkey-and-apple farmer. He kept thousands of turkeys in an orchard full of apple trees. He never ate any food at all. Instead, he drank gallons of strong cider which he made from the apples in his orchard. He was as thin as a pencil and the cleverest of them all."

                                                                                              (Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox)

I. Pick the right answer:

1) The third farmer ate: a) apples; b) turkey; c) nothing.

2) Bean was very: a) fat; b) slim; c) short.

3) Bean was a: a) man; b) vegetable; c) fox.

4) The second farmer kept: a) geese; b) turkeys; c) chickens.

II. Correct the following sentences, according to the text:

a) Down in the river there were three farms.

b) The farmers were poor.

c) Boggis ate three roast chickens every day.

d) Bunce kept thousands of turkeys in an apple orchard.