Test: SSAT Elementary Level Reading

Adapted from A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens (1905)

King Henry the Seventh did not turn out to be as fine a man as the nobility and people hoped, in the first joy of their parting from Richard the Third. He was very cold, crafty, and calculating, and would do almost anything for money. He possessed considerable ability, but his chief merit appears to have been that he was not cruel when there was nothing to be gained by being so.

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Which of these is not a negative quality attributed to King Henry the Seventh?

He is cold and unfeeling 

All of these attributes are negative

He cares too much about money 

He is not unnecessarily cruel

He is crafty and calculating 

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