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Latin American Magic Realist Voices Answers

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Lourdes buys a round box of sticky dates and considers the centuries of fratricide converging on this street corner in Brooklyn. She ponders the transmigrations from the southern latitudes, the millions moving north.

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relating the sentence to personal experience
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slowing down to break up the long sentence
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looking up unfamiliar words in the sentence
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reading the sentence out loud to himself
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Students who have read a section of a text and do not understand it should

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keep reading until the end of the story, when things will become clear.
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ask themselves when comprehension was lost.
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begin to copy any remaining text into their notes.
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push themselves to read faster in order to finish early and review.
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Read the excerpt from Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban.Lourdes considers herself lucky. Immigration has redefined her, and she is grateful. Unlike her husband, she welcomes her adopted language, its possibilities for reinvention. Lourdes relishes winter most of all—the cold scraping sounds on sidewalks and windshields, the ritual of scarves and gloves, hats and zip-in coat linings. Its layers protect her. She wants no part of Cuba, no part of its wretched carnival floats creaking with lies, no part of Cuba at all, which Lourdes claims never possessed her.Which sentence is an example of magic realism?

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Unlike her husband, she welcomes her adopted language, its possibilities for reinvention.
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Lourdes relishes winter most of all—the cold scraping sounds on sidewalks and windshields, the ritual of scarves and gloves, hats and zip-in coat linings.
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Its layers protect her.
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She wants no part of Cuba, no part of its wretched carnival floats creaking with lies, no part of Cuba at all, which Lourdes claims never possessed her.
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Which best describes why Cristina Garcia chose a multi-narrative structure for Dreaming in Cuban?

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to illustrate that immigrants must choose one cultural identity over another
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to illustrate that there is not just one single Cuban identity
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to illustrate that the Cuban Revolution has not affected the younger generation
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to illustrate that people always value their own cultural identity most
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Which sentence from Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban is an example of magic realism?

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Abuela Celia and I write to each other sometimes, but mostly I hear her speaking to me at night just before I fall asleep.
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At night, especially in the summer when the sound carries, I hear the low whistles of the ships as they leave New York harbor.
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Lourdes imagines these pieces, broken and bruised in unspeakable places, on piers and in alleyways, drifting down the river to the sea.
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One girl left with a broken leg after slipping on a bar of soap Pilar dropped while the nanny was bathing her in the sink.
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I was only two years old when I left Cuba but I remember everything that’s happened to me since I was a baby, even word-for-word conversations. I was sitting in my grandmother’s lap, playing with her drop pearl earrings, when my mother told her we were leaving the country. Abuela Celia called her a traitor to the revolution. Mom tried to pull me away but I clung to the Abuela and screamed at the top of my lungs. My grandfather came running and said, “Celia, let the girl go. She belongs with Lourdes.” This was the last time I saw her.

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It uses several narrators to provide conflicting points of view.
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It provides characterization for Celia as it reveals her physical appearance.
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It uses a flashback to reveal the difficult relationship between Lourdes and Celia.
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It includes dialogue to indicate that the characters in the nonfiction account are real people.
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best

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Her name is Minnie French but she’s weirdly old-looking for a young person. Maybe it’s her name or the three shopping bags of food she has under her seat.
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I stared at them, tried to make them go away. I remember thinking, Okay, I’ll start with their hair, make it fall out strand by strand. They always left wearing kerchiefs to cover their bald patches.
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There were beef cattle and dairy cows, horses, pigs, goats, and lambs. Dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins.
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Our house is on a cement plot near the East River. At night, especially in the summer when the sound carries, I hear the low whistles of the ships as they leave New York harbor.
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Read the excerpt from Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban.My mother says that Abuela Celia’s had plenty of chances to leave Cuba but that she’s stubborn and got her head turned around by El Líder. Mom says “Communist” the way some people says “cancer,” low and fierce.Which element from this excerpt best characterizes Garcia’s story as one of magic realism?

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linking the words “communist” and “cancer”
B
presenting the idea of leaving Cuba as an extraordinary event
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using El Líder as an additional narrator from Cuba
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connecting Celia with Latin American history ✓ Correct
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Look at the diagram.This diagram is best used for helping a reader

Question illustration
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relate personally to a text.
B
define hard vocabulary words in a text.
C
monitor comprehension of a text.
D
better understand the theme of a text.
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Draya is a student who does not understand the following sentence from Dreaming in Cuban.She reads the newspapers page by page for leftist conspiracies, jams her finger against imagined evidence and says, “See. What did I tell you?”Which previous segment should Draya reread to make the excerpt easier to understand?

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I take all my money out of the bank, $120, money I earned slaving away at my mother’s bakery, and buy a one-way bus ticket to Miami.
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Mom tried to pull me away but I clung to the Abuela and screamed at the top of my lungs.
C
I was only two years old when I left Cuba but I remember everything that’s happened to me since I was a baby, even word-for-word conversations.
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Mom says “Communist” the way some people says “cancer,” low and fierce. ✓ Correct

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