The Teacher who changed my life

Using context the clues from the first three lines of the text what could infer that the word “refugee” means?

• Someone who fought in a war
• Someone who left their own country to escape a war
• Someone who is in a war
• Someone who cares for someone after a war

Read this paragraph from “The Teacher Who Changed My Life”.
"It was there that I learned about my mother’s execution. I felt very lucky to have come to America, I concluded, but every year the coming of spring made me feel sad because it reminded me of the last time I saw my mother."
Reading this paragraph, how do you think the author felt about his mother’s death?

• He feels happy about the situation
  
• He’s optimistic
• He was mad that he had to leave
  
• He was inspired by his mother

The author's  primary purpose for writing this selection is to -  

• Show people can change and/or inspire you to do things you didn’t know you could do
• He can overcome things
  
• He moved to America so he wouldn’t die
  
• Trying to be funny and entertain us
  

What does the revelation in the second paragraph tell you about Nicholas?  

• That he grew up without a mother
• That he came from a troubled home
• That as a child nicholas dealt with bigger things than most children his age
• That he has never met his father

Which sentence from the selection expresses an opinion?

• “ The partly bald, well dressed man who met me and my sisters seemed a foreign,authoritarian.”
• “The person who set the course of my life in the new land I entered as a young war refugee.”
• “I secretly resented him for not getting the whole family out of Greece early enough to save my mother.”
• “A refugee who had never seen a motorized vehicle or indoor plumbing until he was 9,    this was an unimaginable honor.”
  

Read the following paragraph from the selection.
"I was soon under Miss hurds spell. She did indeed teach us to put out a newspaper, skills I honed during my next 25 years as a journalist."
What type of figurative language is used in those sentences?

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Simile
• Idiom

Which word would best describe the term “Salty-tongued”, from paragraph 1?

• boring
• lively talking
• interesting
• nonsense

Read the following sentence from paragraph 9.
"She promised she would try to get away on her own, she told me to be brave and hung a silver cross around my neck, and then she kissed me."
Using your context clues how do you think Nicholas felt at this moment?

• Sad
• Mad
• inspired
• lucky

Why did the author choose to write this passage?

• Inform
  
• Entertain
• Persuade
• Explain

How did the author’s tone change throughout the story?

• Nostalgic to angry
• Happy to sad
• Calm to happy
• Nostalgic to happier