Questions
1–5 Complete the notes below.
Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 1–5 on your answer sheet.
The Dead Sea Scroll
Discovery:
Qumran, 1946/7
*three Bedouin shepherds in their teens were near an opening on side of cliff
*heard a noise of breaking when one *teenager threw a 1 teenagers went into the 2 and found a number of containers made of 3
The scrolls:
*date from between 150 BCE and 70 CE
*thought to have been written by group of people known as the 4
*written mainly in the 5 language
*most are on religious topics, written using ink on parchment or papyrus
Questions 6–13
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?
In boxes 6–13 on your answer sheet, write
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information FALSE if the statement contradicts the information NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
6 The Bedouin teenagers who found the scrolls were disappointed by how little money they received for them.
7 There is agreement among academics about the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
8 Most of the books of the Bible written on the scrolls are incomplete.
9 The information on the Copper Scroll is written in an unusual way.
10 Mar Samuel was given some of the scrolls as a gift.
11 In the early 1950s, a number of educational establishments in the US were keen to buy scrolls from Mar Samuel.
12 The scroll that was pieced together in 2017 contains information about annual occasions in the Qumran area 2,000 years ago.
13 Academics at the University of Haifa are currently researching how to decipher the final scroll.
