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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".The house fell silent a moment, before Yoyo heard, far off, the gun blasts and explosions, the serious, self-important voices of newscasters reporting their TV war.

A
A conflict with other characters.
B
A conflict within one character.
C
A conflict with nature.
D
A conflict within society.
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Which excerpt from "Daughter of Invention" contains language that best represents the preservation of Dominican values?

A
If her husband insisted she speak in Spanish to the girls so they wouldn't forget their native tongue, she'd snap, "When in Rome, do unto the Romans."
B
Yoyo and her sisters were forgetting a lot of their Spanish, and their father's formal, florid diction was hard to understand.
C
"What is wrong? I will tell you what is wrong. It show no gratitude. It is boastful. I celebrate myself? The best student learns to destroy the teacher?"
D
"This is America, Papi, America! You are not in a savage country anymore!"

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