Meet the Author - Lois Lowry

I had memorized a very long poem, and a very boring poem, but it was one that my _ loved.

• father

• mother

• grandfather

• grandmother

My grandfather brought me out like a parlor trick at a dinner party that he and my grandmother were having. I remember there were very beautifully dressed people around the living room. I was in my _.

• gown

• pajamas

• robe

• slippers

This man had been a guest apparently at my grandfather’s dinner party, and he had left one half of _ percent of his estate to the little girl who had recited “Thanatopsis” in her grandfather’s living room.

• one

• fifteen

• twenty-five

• fifty

I spent that money on a pale blue Pontiac car, dropped out of college, and drove my pale blue car to _ with a football player.

(a)  

I went to college to major in writing and went there with a special scholarship provided for me for that purpose because of some writing _ I won in high school.

• certificates

• trophies

• awards

• medals

This was the ‘50s, and I had a boyfriend, this was the football player--the aforementioned football player--who was _ years ahead of me at Brown and he graduated and he wanted to get married, so I dropped out.

• one

• two

• three

• four

I had _ children before I was twenty-six.

(a)  

​I went back to college. Took me four years to complete the two that I still owed, and then to graduate school, but it was an _ college career. ​

• interesting

• irregular

• interconnected

• interrupted

I was _, as proven by rushing off to get married--that’s an _ thing to do.

• 
  

• mature

• immature

• responsinle

• irresponsible

Though I _ advise young people to do it.

• would

• should

• would not

• should not