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Latin American Magic Realist Voices Answers

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What is the advantage of reading from three different perspectives in Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban?

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It breaks up the narrative and prevents the plot line from becoming bogged down in one particular place or time.
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It allows the writer to experiment with a variety of different writing styles, as every speaker sounds distinctively different.
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The different perspectives underscore the larger idea that immigrants or exiles must shed their native traditions.
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It provides the reader with multiple perspectives on the Cuban Revolution and on the differences between life in Cuba and exile in the US.
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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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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.
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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.
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Mom says “Communist” the way some people says “cancer,” low and fierce. ✓ Correct
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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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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”
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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

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relate personally to a text.
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define hard vocabulary words in a text.
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monitor comprehension of a text.
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better understand the theme of a text.
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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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Read the excerpt from Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban.If it were up to me, I’d record other things. Like the time there was a freak hailstorm in the Congo and the women took it as a sign that they should rule . . . Why don’t I know anything about them? Who chooses what we should know or what’s important? I know I have to decide these things for myself. Most of what I’ve learned that’s important I’ve learned on my own, or from my grandmother.What does the excerpt reveal about Cristina Garcia?

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Her background in journalism has made the writing of realistic fiction more difficult for her.
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Her background in journalism has helped her research and use realistic details in her fiction.
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Her background in journalism has prevented her from using magic realism in her fiction.
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Her background in journalism has caused her to become an efficient and thorough editor.
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breaking long sentences into short phrases
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slowing down and reading the text aloud
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skimming the text to reach the conclusion
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relating the text to prior personal knowledge

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