Characters, Conflict, and Idioms in "Daughter of Invention" by Julia Alvarez Answers

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Which excerpt from "Daughter of Invention" contains language that best reveals that Carlos is still tied to his Dominican origin?

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He sat bolt upright, reaching for his glasses which in his haste, he knocked across the room. "iQue pasa? iQue pasa?"
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“...It is boastful. I celebrate myself? The best student learns to destroy the teacher?" He mocked Yoyo's plagiarized words.
C
"Have you gone mad?" He shook her away. "You were going to let her read that . . . that insult to her teachers?"
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He called down curses on her head, ordered her on his authority as her father to open that door!
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grammarrhyming wordswordinessword usage

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grammar
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rhyming words
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wordiness
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word usage
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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".But Laura's inventing days were over just as Yoyo's were starting up with her school-wide success. Rather than the rolling suitcase everyone else in the family remembers, Yoyo thinks of the speech her mother wrote as her last invention. It was as if, after that, her mother had passed on to Yoyo her pencil and pad and said, "Okay, Cuquita, here's the buck. You give it a shot."

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But Laura’s inventing days were over
B
the rolling suitcase everyone else in the family remembers
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Yoyo thinks of the speech her mother wrote as her last invention
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after that, her mother had passed on to Yoyo her pencil and pad
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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention"."Maybe not. Maybe, just maybe, there's something they've missed that's important. With patience and calm, even a burro can climb a palm." This last was one of her many Dominican sayings she had imported into her scrambled English.

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We’re all in the same boat.
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You are barking up the wrong tree.
C
Let sleeping dogs lie.
D
Slow and steady wins the race.
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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention"."Maybe not. Maybe, just maybe, there's something they've missed that's important. With patience and calm, even a burro can climb a palm." This last was one of her many Dominican sayings she had imported into her scrambled English.

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Anything can be accomplished.
B
Anyone can make money.
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A little encouragement goes a long way.
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Every story needs to have a point.
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Which excerpt from "Daughter of Invention" reveals Laura’s Dominican origin through unique pronunciation?

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"You girls are going to drive me crazy!" she threatened, if they kept nagging. "When I end up in Bellevue, you'll be safely sorry!"
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"Remember that time we took the car to Bear Mountain, and we re-ah-lized that we had forgotten to pack an opener with our pick-a-nick?"
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"Maybe not. Maybe, just maybe, there's something they've missed that's important. With patience and calm, even a burro can climb a palm."
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"Ay, Cuco. Remember how I showed you that suitcase with little wheels so we should not have to carry those heavy bags when we traveled? Someone stole my idea and made a million!"
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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention"."What ees wrrrong with her eh-speech?" Carlos wagged his head at her. His anger was always more frightening in his broken English. As if he had mutilated the language in his fury—and now there was nothing to stand between them and his raw, dumb anger. "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?" He mocked Yoyo's plagiarized words. "That is insubordinate. It is improper. It is disrespecting of her teachers—" In his anger he had forgotten his fear of lurking spies: each wrong he voiced was a decibel higher than the last outrage. Finally, he shouted at Yoyo, "As your father, I forbid you to make that eh-speech!"

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His accent gets stronger when he is angry.
B
His English vocabulary is somewhat limited.
C
He doesn’t understand what his daughter wrote.
D
He has trouble speaking clearly in English.
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himselfnatureotherssociety

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himself
B
nature
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others
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society
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What variations in language can a reader look for to better understand a character? Choose four answers.voicepronunciationvolumevocabularysyntaxgrammar

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voice
B
pronunciation
C
volume
D
vocabulary
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syntax
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grammar
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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention"."Thanks, thanks a lot, Mom!" Yoyo stormed out of that room and into her own. Her daughters never called her Mom except when they wanted her to feel how much she had failed them in this country. She was a good enough Mami, fussing and scolding and giving advice, but a terrible girlfriend parent, a real failure of a Mom.

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They sometimes wish their mother would be more like the American moms.
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They sometimes wish their mother would stop inventing useless things.
C
They sometimes wish their mother would fuss over them more than she does.
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They sometimes wish their mother would move them to the Dominican Republic.

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