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    The document is a quiz about a passage describing the author Carolyn's experience attending boarding school in England as a child from America. [1] Carolyn was the only American student at the all-girls Truro High School for Girls in Cornwall, England. [2] The school was old and dark, built of granite with narrow staircases, and Carolyn studied subjects like Latin, French, history and took gym classes outside. [3] Carolyn learned to be self-reliant and adapt while fitting in as a foreigner in England.

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    The document is a quiz about a passage describing the author Carolyn's experience attending boarding school in England as a child from America. [1] Carolyn was the only American student at the all-girls Truro High School for Girls in Cornwall, England. [2] The school was old and dark, built of granite with narrow staircases, and Carolyn studied subjects like Latin, French, history and took gym classes outside. [3] Carolyn learned to be self-reliant and adapt while fitting in as a foreigner in England.

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    The document is a quiz about a passage describing the author Carolyn's experience attending boarding school in England as a child from America. [1] Carolyn was the only American student at the all-girls Truro High School for Girls in Cornwall, England. [2] The school was old and dark, built of granite with narrow staircases, and Carolyn studied subjects like Latin, French, history and took gym classes outside. [3] Carolyn learned to be self-reliant and adapt while fitting in as a foreigner in England.

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    The document is a quiz about a passage describing the author Carolyn's experience attending boarding school in England as a child from America. [1] Carolyn was the only American student at the all-girls Truro High School for Girls in Cornwall, England. [2] The school was old and dark, built of granite with narrow staircases, and Carolyn studied subjects like Latin, French, history and took gym classes outside. [3] Carolyn learned to be self-reliant and adapt while fitting in as a foreigner in England.

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    Quiz: How technology can affect relationships

    1.Why do children see using technology as a way of life?


    Because the access to it is easy
    Because they see their parents using it
    Both answers are correct

    2.What do people feel when they leave their phone at home?


    They feel naked without it
    They feel handless without it
    They feel uncomfortable without it

    3.The children should


    Use only one screen at a time and limit their time using it
    Use only one screen at a time for less than 2 hours a day
    Use electronics for only 2 hours a day

    4.What is the significant loss mentioned, when people use text messaging?
    Affect (what do you see - like it is when you are talking face to face)
    Feelings (expressing emotions)
    Behaviour (people can "mask" themselves in the internet)

    5.Donna's daughter didn't understand her mom because


    Donna used a wrong expression
    Donna forgot an exclamation point in her text message
    Donna's message lost the affect

    6.What's the point in "no TV, no phones and no computers" rule at the dinner table?
    That's inapproriate behaviour
    That's the time to socialize
    That's distracting people from eating

    (Key: 1-C, 2-A, 3-B, 4-A, 5-C, 6-B)


    My Harry Potter Days

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


    a) London
    b) England
    c) Brittan

    2. "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."
    a) only / It was very
    b) lonely / It was

    3. "The school was cold and dark, ________________ granite, with narrow windy staircases
    of creaky, well-worn wooden steps."
    a) built of
    b) built by

    4. "Besides standard classes, we studied French, ________, English History, and Divinity."
    a) Latin
    b) Italian

    5. "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."
    a) beside
    b) behind

    6. "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."
    a) always stood
    b) understood

    7. "She was Australian, and taught us words such as kookaburra and corroborate, because
    they had _______________ origins."
    a) Australian
    b) Austrian

    8. "The boarding house was behind the school. We slept in drafty ______ of ten girls each."
    a) dorms
    b) rooms

    9. "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."
    a) fascinating
    b) fascinated

    10. "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."
    a) hat
    b) cap

    11. "I learned a lot of lessons ______ boarding school. I learned to be self-reliant,
    adaptable, and discreet."
    a) at
    b) with
    c) in

    12. "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."
    a) sit in
    b) fit in

    13. Where was Carolyn from?


    a) Australia
    b) England
    c) America

    14. How many American girls went to this school?


    a) several
    b) only Carolyn

    15. The school was ________________.


    a) old, big and bright
    b) cold and dark

    16. Did Carolyn study French at school?


    a) No, she didn't.
    b) Yes, she did.

    17. What did Carolyn and her friends do in the meadow?


    a) They played soccer.
    b) They picked wildflowers.
    c) They played in the snow.

    18. Who would say, "Aarrgh. Good morning to ya?"


    a) Her teacher, Mr. Dunstead.
    b) The gardener.
    c) The women who worked in the kitchen.

    19. All of the girls wore the same color uniform. What color was it?
    a) brown
    b) yellow
    c) white

    20. What changed while Carolyn was at this school?


    a) her education
    b) her personality

    Key: 1-b, 2-a, 3-a, 4-a, 5-b, 6-a, 7-a, 8-a, 9-a, 10-b, 11-c, 12-b, 13-c, 14-b, 15-b, 16-b, 17-b, 18-c,
    19-a, 20-c

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