My Harry Potter Years by Carolyn MacLean

My Harry Potter Years by Carolyn MacLean

1. "When I was a child, I went to a private, girls boarding school in        _."

 London

☑ England

 Brittan

1. "My two years in boarding school shaped me. I was the        American child in the

preparatory division of a Church of England school, named Truro High School for Girls, in Cornwall, England        different from

my home and school in Los Angeles."

☑only / It was very

 lonely / It was

1. "The school was cold and dark, ________________

granite, with narrow windy staircases of creaky, well-worn wooden steps."

☑ built of

 built by

1. "Besides standard classes, we studied French,

__________, English History, and Divinity."

☑ Latin

 Italian

1. "Gym was field hockey on the cold, sometimes snowy, hockey pitch        the school, where

we also picked wildflowers from the meadow for our botany reports."

□ beside

☑behind

1. "I remember one teacher in particular. As our teacher entered the classroom we

_________________ to greet her with a chorus of "Good morning, Ms. Dunstead." She would return our greeting, "Good morning, girls. You may sit down."

☑ always stood

 understood

1. "She was Australian, and taught us words such as kookaburra and corroborate, because they had

_______________ origins."

☑ Australian

 Austrian

1. "The boarding house was behind the school. We slept in drafty        of ten girls each."

☑dorms

 rooms

1. "The women who worked in the kitchen were

__________________ to me. They spoke an odd  dialect called Cornish. It, it was pirate speak. It was very rough and guttural. For example, they would say, "Aarrgh. Good morning to ya."

☑ fascinating

 fascinated

1. "Everyday we wore drab brown uniforms; brown oxford shoes, brown socks, brown skirt, brown blazer, a cream-colored shirt with a yellow and brown striped tie, and a funny little brown felt

________ that looked like an upside-down soup bowl."

 hat

☑ cap

1. "I learned a lot of lessons        boarding

school. I learned to be self-reliant, adaptable, and discreet."

 at

 with

☑ in

1. "The Harry Potter magic of my years in this classic English boarding school was in the shaping of my personality as I learned to

____________ as a foreigner in a very different English-speaking land."

 sit in

☑ fit in

1. Question: Where was Carolyn from?

 Australia

 England

☑ America

1. Question: How many American girls went to this school?

 several

☑only Carolyn

1. Question: The school was        _.

 old, big and bright

☑ cold and dark

1. Question: Did Carolyn study French at school?

 No, she didn't.

☑Yes, she did.

1. Question: What did Carolyn and her friends do in the meadow?

 They played soccer.

☑ They picked wildflowers.

 They played in the snow.

1. Question: Who would say, "Aarrgh. Good morning to ya?"

 Her teacher, Mr. Dunstead.

 The gardener.

☑The women who worked in the kitchen.

1. Question: All of the girls wore the same color uniform. What color was it?

☑ brown

 yellow

 white

1. Question: What changed while Carolyn was at this school?

 her education

☑ her personality

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