Variant 1 You could have come first and won the race if you … faster

28. According to the passage Ireland ...

A) was an independent state in the 18th century B) was a predominantly Catholic state

C) became a republic in the 16th century D) didn't have any schools until the 19th century

29. It said in the passage that Hedge Schoolmasters ...

A) worked for one of the department of Trinity College.

B) provided the only legal education for Catholics at that time.

C) taught murder to raise money for school buildings.

D) had to teach secretly as what they were doing was illegal.

30. It is mentioned in the passage that one difficulty that Hedge Schoolmaster and their pupil were faced with

was that ...

A) they didn't have any school books B) the school master weren't properly trained

C) the students had to study Latin and Greek D) the masters and pupils spoke different languages.

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