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COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
Be like Detective Investigators and search through the text to find the answers to these questions. Write the answers in your books in full sentences.
1. Write in your own words what you think is “a guilty conscience”?
2. How many years after Rose was murdered did they find the person who
murdered her?
3. Find a NEGATIVE word in the first line of the first paragraph and write it down.
4. How old was Rose when she was killed?
5. The 3rd line of the second paragraph states “her peaceful, pleasant” life. What
language feature is this and what is the effect of the ‘p’ sound on the reader?
6. At the bottom of the first page, it states that “the murder looked as though it
could have been the results of a botched robbery” – explain what this means in
your own words.
7. Who was first suspected of killing Rose?
8. The suspect is described as having which two characteristics?
9. What was the suspect’s father’s job?
10. How would you expect the son of somebody responsible to behave?
11. Why do you think the father was embarrassed by his son’s behaviour?
12. The writer describes this crime as ‘heinous’ – write the definition of this word.
13. How many days after the murder was Jeffrey asked to take a lie detector test?
14. Explain in your own words what is meant by ‘the case began to go cold’.
15. In which year did Luanne approach the police?
16. Calculate what year the crime took place (see question 2)?
17. What was Luanne’s job whilst the crime was being committed?
18. Who was the other person who was found guilty of Rose’s murder?
19. Which of Rose’s jewellery items attracted Bayer to commit the crime?
20. Luanne did not tell the police originally because of ‘fear of reprisal’ – In your own
words, explain what this means?
21. Jeffrey told Luanne the details of the crime. Why was it so heinous?
22. What did the police need to prove that Jeffrey had committed the crime?
23. Jeffrey had “bragged about murder” – which character trait does a bragging
person have?
24. What was the name of the second witness who helped the police solve the
crime?
25. Jeffrey Bayer had been ‘imprisoned for various felonies’ – what is a felony?
1. Write in your own words what you think is “a guilty conscience”?
2. How many years after Rose was murdered did they find the person who
murdered her?
3. Find a NEGATIVE word in the first line of the first paragraph and write it down.
4. How old was Rose when she was killed?
5. The 3rd line of the second paragraph states “her peaceful, pleasant” life. What
language feature is this and what is the effect of the ‘p’ sound on the reader?
6. At the bottom of the first page, it states that “the murder looked as though it
could have been the results of a botched robbery” – explain what this means in
your own words.
7. Who was first suspected of killing Rose?
8. The suspect is described as having which two characteristics?
9. What was the suspect’s father’s job?
10. How would you expect the son of somebody responsible to behave?
11. Why do you think the father was embarrassed by his son’s behaviour?
12. The writer describes this crime as ‘heinous’ – write the definition of this word.
13. How many days after the murder was Jeffrey asked to take a lie detector test?
14. Explain in your own words what is meant by ‘the case began to go cold’.
15. In which year did Luanne approach the police?
16. Calculate what year the crime took place (see question 2)?
17. What was Luanne’s job whilst the crime was being committed?
18. Who was the other person who was found guilty of Rose’s murder?
19. Which of Rose’s jewellery items attracted Bayer to commit the crime?
20. Luanne did not tell the police originally because of ‘fear of reprisal’ – In your own
words, explain what this means?
21. Jeffrey told Luanne the details of the crime. Why was it so heinous?
22. What did the police need to prove that Jeffrey had committed the crime?
23. Jeffrey had “bragged about murder” – which character trait does a bragging
person have?
24. What was the name of the second witness who helped the police solve the
crime?
25. Jeffrey Bayer had been ‘imprisoned for various felonies’ – what is a felony?