Read the passage from "The Dream."“Honey,” said her father, “I read the letters, and I’m so happy for you, but when a child goes to the bush, it should look for snails and not for the tortoise.”Whenever something was difficult for him to say, Amina’s father spoke in a proverb from Nigeria, his home country. Amina was born in America and usually had trouble deciphering what he meant.

Amina’s father uses a Nigerian proverb to express caution: a child going into the bush should look for snails, not the harder-to-find tortoise. He is advising her to choose a more manageable goal, while Amina has trouble understanding his indirect way of communicating. This shows their different approaches to overcoming challenges, choice D.

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