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the campus of Saint-Cyr, Gravure 1690 (pictured) , a French military academy founded by Napoleon Bonaparte , used to be a boarding school for girls, Maison royale de Saint-Louis , during the reign of Louis XIV ?
the first Spanish film shot in English is La residencia , a 1969 horror film about murders in a female-only boarding school ?
the Holding Institute , now a community center in Laredo , Texas , was formerly a boarding school destroyed in 1954 by Rio Grande floods , relocated, and thereafter closed for financial reasons?
Gordonstoun School (pictured) is a Scottish boarding school famed for educating three generations of the British Royal Family , including the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles ?
Fr. Finn wrote the 1890 novel Tom Playfair , telling the adventures of a 10-year-old at an all-boys Jesuit boarding school , to illustrate his ideal of a genuine Catholic American boy?
Clontarf Aboriginal College in Australia has at various points in its history served as an orphanage , a convent , an RAAF training facility , a boarding school and a day school ?
Brahmo social reformer Dwarkanath Ganguly served a girls' boarding school in Kolkata , India as headmaster, teacher, dietician, guard, and janitor?
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Question 2 : In the United States , boarding schools for students below the age of 13 are called junior boarding schools , and are not as common and not as encouraged as in the United Kingdom and ________ .
Question 3 : ________ 's novel Jeremy at Crale (1927)
Question 4 : There is also a huge boarding-school genre literature, mostly uncollected, in British ________ and serials from the 1900s to the 1980s.
Question 5 : ________ 's Jennings series of children's stories (from 1950)
Question 6 : A boarding school is a ________ where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers.
Question 7 : Ludwig Bemelmans ' ________ series of children's picture books (1939-present)
Question 8 : In some countries, such as ________ and Sri Lanka , a number of state schools have boarding facilities.
Question 10 : Boarding schools and their surrounding settings and situations have become a genre in ________ with its own identifiable conventions.