Comprehension passage - JSS1 English Language Lesson Note

COMPREHENSION

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow;

 

Long time ago, I was born in a certain country near Bida and the name of our town was Kagara, my father was a tall, light skinned man whose craft was leather-working. My mother was a native of Fatika. Now when my mother was carrying me, my father died and left me an inheritance of six cows, three sheep and his riding mare, at this time the mare was foal. All these were handed over to my mother, who was told to keep them for until in God's time she should give birth to. They were the properties of her son, since her husband had no other relatives to claim the inheritance.

So things went on well until one day I was born, and I turned out to be a boy..Now when the name day came around, my mother had one of my rams caught and slaughteredand the name Umar was whispered into my ear,then I began a life of adventure such as the world has rarely seen.