READING COMPREHENSION ANSWER KEY (DIAGNOSTIC TEST)

Reading: The Origins of Higher Learning (ANSWER KEY)

1   1.   a           2.   c

2   1.   F – Not long after, universities began to open throughout medieval Europe … The first that was actually called a university, …

      2.   F – The first that was actually called a university, … was established in 1088 in Bologna, Italy.

      3.   T – … the US gained independence in 1776

3    1.   to spread religious learning throughout the Islamic world

      2.   was given to a woman for the first time

4    1.   pinpoint                                  4.   unclear

      2.   remarkable                            5.   endless

      3.   founded