Understanding the text: "What made me the way I am?"

The writer's father came from a family of:

• Doctors

• Diplomats

• Miners

• Travellers

What two things do we know about the writer's mother?

• That she came from a rich family

• That her family lived abroad when she was a child

• That she always did what her parents told her to do

• That she went to Cambridge for University

The story of how her parents met is set in:

• 1970

• 1980

• The early 1980s

• 1985

What is a convoy?

• The festival where Travellers would usually meet

• A group of vehicles (lorries, buses, etc) travelling together

• The name of the bus where her parents first met

• None of the above

What do we know about the political situation of the UK in the 80s from reading the text?

Summer was born in:

What age was Summer when she met her grandparents for the first time?

• 17

• We don't know

• 1

• 7

When Summer was little, her parents joined an alternative ___ called "Anarkukus".

How does Summer feel about her life as a young Traveller with the circus?

• She feared the circus people and felt like an outsider

• She loved traveling around Europe but doesn't feel she learned anything from it

• She appreciates the skills she learned and how this experience made her who she is today

• She enjoyed learning how to juggle