How old was Saroo when he became lost to his family?
Five
What is the protagonist's name?
Saroo Brierley
People, places, things
What are nouns?
It felf as it people in the station were like a river
What is a simile?
Where was Saroo's adoptive home?
Hobart
What is TED short for?
Connected (learning)
Where did Saroo's adoptive parents come from?
Hobart in Tasmania
What was the name of Saroo's younger adopted brother?
Mantosh
TRUE or FALSE:
Saroo was hit by a train?
FALSE
Trains were the veins of India.
What is a metaphor OR rhyme
The colour of the book Saroo was given with pictures of his new family
What is RED?
Kennedy House
Ganesh Talai, India
What were the names of Saroo's adopted parents?
John and Sue
The amount of years it took Saroo to find his family.
What is 25?
The little lights winking in the gathering darkness
What is personification OR alliteration?
What item does Saroo describe as "an amazing luxury for me"
a chocolate bar
Who is the current MDCC female school captain?
Ellie Clarke
What is the name of the train station where Saroo was left?
Burhanpur
What is the name of the lady who took Saroo to the orphanage?
Mrs Sood
I do not work as a stand alone sentence
dependent clause
My mother was very beautiful, slender, with long lustrous hair
alliteration/visual imagery
When Saroo first arrives in Calcutta, what language does he NOT speak?
Bengali
Mr Lawrence's favourite NRL team
The bunnies
In Saroo's words, he has "two ______, not identities."
Families
Lisa
Who is Asra?
Saroo's childhood friend who was also adopted by an Australian family.
Did the trains go much faster than I'd allowed for?
What is a rhetorical question?
List 3 aspects that make up culture
The 3 people who work in IT at the College
Who are Mr Cutler, Mr McPherson and Mr Lloyd?
What does ISSA stand for?
Indian Society for Sponsorship and Adoption
What was the orphanage called that Saroo ended up at?
Nava Jeevan
Because he went from having nothing and surviving to having things of his own to cherish.
I got on the plane.
What is a simple sentence
How many watermelons is Saroo carrying when he gets hit by a motorcycle?
10
Miss Lamb is from this county
Yorkshire
Saroo has a poster of which band on his bedroom wall?
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Name all of Saroo's Indian siblings
Shekila, Guddu and Kallu
the arrangement of words and phrases to create a well formed sentence
What is syntax?
It amazes me now when I think about how I managed to survive and thrive
What is a complex sentence
Trains only go which TWO ways out of Burhanpur?
North-east OR South-west
How is Mrs Baggio (English) related to Mrs Baggio (PE)?
PE Baggio is married to English Baggio's nephew
What is the name of the river in which Saroo nearly drowns?
Hooghly River.
What is the name of Saroo's biological mother?
Kamla
Saroo describe the junvenile home as this
hell
Name all the FANBOYS AND the correct name for this group of words
What was the population of Australia in 1987?
17 million
What is special about this sentence?
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
It contains every letter of the English alphabet