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Which complex narrative structure is underutilized by Cristina Garcia in Dreaming in Cuban?

A
the attention given to presenting the work as fiction
B
the use of unconventional textual features
C
the representation of several narrators
D
the manipulation of the chronological order of events
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Which strategy would be least useful for helping students monitor comprehension of a text as they are reading?

A
breaking long sentences into short phrases
B
slowing down and reading the text aloud
C
skimming the text to reach the conclusion
D
relating the text to prior personal knowledge
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Look at the diagram.This diagram is best used for helping a reader

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A
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?

A
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.
B
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.
D
Mom says “Communist” the way some people says “cancer,” low and fierce.
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Pierre is a student who does not understand the following sentence from Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban.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. Which strategy would best help Pierre understand the excerpt?

A
relating the sentence to personal experience
B
slowing down to break up the long sentence
C
looking up unfamiliar words in the sentence
D
reading the sentence out loud to himself
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Which best describes why Cristina Garcia chose a multi-narrative structure for Dreaming in Cuban?

A
to illustrate that immigrants must choose one cultural identity over another
B
to illustrate that there is not just one single Cuban identity
C
to illustrate that the Cuban Revolution has not affected the younger generation
D
to illustrate that people always value their own cultural identity most

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