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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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Read the excerpt from Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban.My father knew I understood more than I could say. He told me stories about Cuba after Columbus came. He said that the Spaniards wiped out more Indians with smallpox than with muskets.Which best describes an element of magic realism used by Garcia in this excerpt?

A
She shows the close relationship that Pilar had with her father.
B
She connects the events to the colonial history of Latin America.
C
She is a modern writer developing a story about Spanish history.
D
She characterizes Columbus’s discovery as an extraordinary event.
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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?

A
Her background in journalism has made the writing of realistic fiction more difficult for her.
B
Her background in journalism has helped her research and use realistic details in her fiction.
C
Her background in journalism has prevented her from using magic realism in her fiction.
D
Her background in journalism has caused her to become an efficient and thorough editor.
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Which sentence from Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban is an example of magic realism?

A
Abuela Celia and I write to each other sometimes, but mostly I hear her speaking to me at night just before I fall asleep.
B
At night, especially in the summer when the sound carries, I hear the low whistles of the ships as they leave New York harbor.
C
Lourdes imagines these pieces, broken and bruised in unspeakable places, on piers and in alleyways, drifting down the river to the sea.
D
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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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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Read the excerpt from Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban.That’s it. My mind’s made up. I’m going back to Cuba. I’m fed up with everything around here. 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. I figure if I can just get there, I’ll be able to make my way to Cuba, maybe rent a boat or get a fisherman to take me. I imagine Abuela [grandmother] Celia’s surprise as I sneak up behind her. She’ll be sitting in her wicker swing overlooking the sea and she’ll smell of salt and violet water. There’ll be gulls and crabs along the shore. She’ll stroke my cheek with her cool hands, sing quietly in my ear.The complex narrative structure used in the excerpt is an example of

A
establishing a work of fiction that is based on nonfiction.
B
several narrators being used.
C
unconventional text features.
D
the chronological order of events being manipulated.
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Look at the diagram.This diagram is best used for helping a reader

Question illustration
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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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?

A
Unlike her husband, she welcomes her adopted language, its possibilities for reinvention.
B
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.
C
Its layers protect her.
D
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?

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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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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