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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
looking up unfamiliar words in the sentence
C
reading the sentence out loud to himself
D
slowing down to break up the long sentence
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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 is a modern writer developing a story about Spanish history.
B
She characterizes Columbus’s discovery as an extraordinary event.
C
She connects the events to the colonial history of Latin America.
D
She shows the close relationship that Pilar had with her father.
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Which best describes why Cristina Garcia chose a multi-narrative structure for Dreaming in Cuban ?

A
to illustrate that people always value their own cultural identity most
B
to illustrate that immigrants must choose one cultural identity over another
C
to illustrate that there is not just one single Cuban identity
D
to illustrate that the Cuban Revolution has not affected the younger generation
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Read the two excerpts about Jorge del Pino from Dreaming in Cuban . Excerpt 1: My grandfather came running and said, “Celia, let the girl go. She belongs with Lourdes.” Excerpt 2: “Pilar doesn’t hate you, hija . She just hasn’t learned to love you yet.” Which statement best synthesizes the ideas in these two excerpts?

A
Jorge wants his family to value their Cuban background and stay together.
B
Jorge values his relationship with his daughter more than the one with his wife.
C
Jorge understands that mother-daughter relationships can be complex.
D
Jorge wants more than anything to build a closer relationship with his granddaughter.
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Read the excerpt from Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban . I don’t really want to talk about my father but I end up telling Minnie how he used to take me horseback riding on our ranch, strapping me in his saddle with a leather seat belt he designed just for me. Dad’s family owned casinos in Cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island. 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. He took me on an overnight inspection once. We camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old women’s voices. 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. How does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage?

A
It includes historical information about the Spaniards and Indians to indicate the work is nonfiction.
B
It manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the close relationship between Pilar and her father.
C
It describes the setting of the ranch owned by Pilar’s Cuban grandparents to explain family values.
D
It uses several narrators to share their points of view about past and present life in Cuba.
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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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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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What is the advantage of reading from three different perspectives in Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban ?

A
The different perspectives underscore the larger idea that immigrants or exiles must shed their native traditions.
B
It breaks up the narrative and prevents the plot line from becoming bogged down in one particular place or time.
C
It allows the writer to experiment with a variety of different writing styles, as every speaker sounds distinctively different.
D
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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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?

A
linking the words “communist” and “cancer”
B
presenting the idea of leaving Cuba as an extraordinary event
C
connecting Celia with Latin American history
D
using El Líder as an additional narrator from Cuba
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What is the advantage of reading from three different perspectives in Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban ?

A
It allows the writer to experiment with a variety of different writing styles, as every speaker sounds distinctively different.
B
It provides the reader with multiple perspectives on the Cuban Revolution and on the differences between life in Cuba and exile in the US.
C
It breaks up the narrative and prevents the plot line from becoming bogged down in one particular place or time.
D
The different perspectives underscore the larger idea that immigrants or exiles must shed their native traditions.

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