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Which excerpt from "Daughter of Invention" contains language that best represents the preservation of Dominican values?

A
If her husband insisted she speak in Spanish to the girls so they wouldn't forget their native tongue, she'd snap, "When in Rome, do unto the Romans."
B
Yoyo and her sisters were forgetting a lot of their Spanish, and their father's formal, florid diction was hard to understand.
C
"What is wrong? I will tell you what is wrong. It show no gratitude. It is boastful. I celebrate myself? The best student learns to destroy the teacher?"
D
"This is America, Papi, America! You are not in a savage country anymore!"
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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".Yoyo didn't need much encouragement. She put her nose to the fire, as her mother would have said, and read from start to finish without looking up. When she concluded, she was a little embarrassed at the pride she took in her own words. She pretended to quibble with a phrase or two, then looked questioningly to her mother. Laura's face was radiant. Yoyo turned to share her pride with her father.

A
She was cold as she wrote her speech, so she sat by the fire.
B
She worked hard to finish her speech for the assembly.
C
She was proud of the speech once she finished it.
D
She finished the speech in a very short amount of time.
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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention"."Maybe not. Maybe, just maybe, there's something they've missed that's important. With patience and calm, even a burro can climb a palm." This last was one of her many Dominican sayings she had imported into her scrambled English.

A
Anything can be accomplished.
B
Anyone can make money.
C
A little encouragement goes a long way.
D
Every story needs to have a point.
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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".Meanwhile, Yoyo was on her knees, weeping wildly, collecting all the little pieces of her speech, hoping that she could put it back together before the assembly tomorrow morning. But not even a sibyl could have made sense of those tiny scraps of paper. All hope was lost. "He broke it, he broke it," Yoyo moaned as she picked up a handful of pieces.

A
Yoyo is frustrated by her inability to write a good speech for the assembly at her school.
B
Yoyo is worried about insulting her teachers and peers with the speech she has written.
C
Yoyo is saddened by her father’s disapproval of the message in her speech for the assembly.
D
Yoyo is reminded of the terrors her father faced under the dictatorship of the Dominican Republic.
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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention"."Thanks, thanks a lot, Mom!" Yoyo stormed out of that room and into her own. Her daughters never called her Mom except when they wanted her to feel how much she had failed them in this country. She was a good enough Mami, fussing and scolding and giving advice, but a terrible girlfriend parent, a real failure of a Mom.

A
They sometimes wish their mother would be more like the American moms.
B
They sometimes wish their mother would stop inventing useless things.
C
They sometimes wish their mother would fuss over them more than she does.
D
They sometimes wish their mother would move them to the Dominican Republic.
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Which excerpt from "Daughter of Invention" reveals Laura’s Dominican origin through unique pronunciation?

A
"You girls are going to drive me crazy!" she threatened, if they kept nagging. "When I end up in Bellevue, you'll be safely sorry!"
B
"Remember that time we took the car to Bear Mountain, and we re-ah-lized that we had forgotten to pack an opener with our pick-a-nick?"
C
"Maybe not. Maybe, just maybe, there's something they've missed that's important. With patience and calm, even a burro can climb a palm."
D
"Ay, Cuco. Remember how I showed you that suitcase with little wheels so we should not have to carry those heavy bags when we traveled? Someone stole my idea and made a million!"
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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".But Laura's inventing days were over just as Yoyo's were starting up with her school-wide success. Rather than the rolling suitcase everyone else in the family remembers, Yoyo thinks of the speech her mother wrote as her last invention. It was as if, after that, her mother had passed on to Yoyo her pencil and pad and said, "Okay, Cuquita, here's the buck. You give it a shot."

A
But Laura’s inventing days were over
B
the rolling suitcase everyone else in the family remembers
C
Yoyo thinks of the speech her mother wrote as her last invention
D
after that, her mother had passed on to Yoyo her pencil and pad
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himselfnatureotherssociety

A
himself
B
nature
C
others
D
society
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Which of Laura’s misquoted idioms from "Daughter of Invention" is intended to mean that it makes no difference to her?

A
"green behind the ears,"
B
"When in Rome, do unto the Romans."
C
"It's half of one or two dozen of another."
D
“...one of these days my ship would pass me by in the night!"
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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".The house fell silent a moment, before Yoyo heard, far off, the gun blasts and explosions, the serious, self-important voices of newscasters reporting their TV war.

A
A conflict with other characters.
B
A conflict within one character.
C
A conflict with nature.
D
A conflict within society.
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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention"."iYa, ya!" She waved them out of her room at last. "There is no use trying to drink spilt milk, that's for sure."

A
She wants her daughters to learn from her mistakes.
B
She does not want to dwell on something that cannot be changed.
C
She intends to invent many more useful things she can patent.
D
She wishes that she had been the one to patent the suitcase with wheels.
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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention"."Ay, Cuquita." That was her communal pet name for whoever was in her favor. "Cuquita, when I make a million, buy you your very own typewriter." (Yoyo had been nagging her mother for one just like the one her father had bought to do his order forms at home.) "Gravy on the turkey" was what she called it when someone was buttering her up. She buttered and poured. "I'll hire you your very own typist."

A
She speaks better English than her daughter.
B
She only speaks English to her daughter.
C
She does not know the grammar rules in English.
D
She is not comfortable communicating in English.
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Which excerpt from "Daughter of Invention" contains language that best reveals that Carlos is still tied to his Dominican origin?

A
He sat bolt upright, reaching for his glasses which in his haste, he knocked across the room. "iQue pasa? iQue pasa?"
B
“...It is boastful. I celebrate myself? The best student learns to destroy the teacher?" He mocked Yoyo's plagiarized words.
C
"Have you gone mad?" He shook her away. "You were going to let her read that . . . that insult to her teachers?"
D
He called down curses on her head, ordered her on his authority as her father to open that door!
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What variations in language can a reader look for to better understand a character? Choose four answers.voicepronunciationvolumevocabularysyntaxgrammar

A
voice
B
pronunciation
C
volume
D
vocabulary
E
syntax
F
grammar
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grammarrhyming wordswordinessword usage

A
grammar
B
rhyming words
C
wordiness
D
word usage
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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention"."Maybe not. Maybe, just maybe, there's something they've missed that's important. With patience and calm, even a burro can climb a palm." This last was one of her many Dominican sayings she had imported into her scrambled English.

A
We’re all in the same boat.
B
You are barking up the wrong tree.
C
Let sleeping dogs lie.
D
Slow and steady wins the race.
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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention"."iYa, ya!" She waved them out of her room at last. "There is no use trying to drink spilt milk, that's for sure."

A
She is very careful about the way she uses the English language.
B
She is hesitant to speak English most of the time.
C
She is eager to try English phrases and expressions.
D
She prefers to speak in Spanish, rather than English.
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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention"."What ees wrrrong with her eh-speech?" Carlos wagged his head at her. His anger was always more frightening in his broken English. As if he had mutilated the language in his fury—and now there was nothing to stand between them and his raw, dumb anger. "What is wrong? I will tell you what is wrong. It show no gratitude. It is boastful. I celebrate myself? The best student learns to destroy the teacher?" He mocked Yoyo's plagiarized words. "That is insubordinate. It is improper. It is disrespecting of her teachers—" In his anger he had forgotten his fear of lurking spies: each wrong he voiced was a decibel higher than the last outrage. Finally, he shouted at Yoyo, "As your father, I forbid you to make that eh-speech!"

A
His accent gets stronger when he is angry.
B
His English vocabulary is somewhat limited.
C
He doesn’t understand what his daughter wrote.
D
He has trouble speaking clearly in English.
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Read the excerpt from "Yearbook.”Well, that’s definitely a relief. I’m not exactly sure how this all works yet,” Fatima said, a small smile forming on her face."Listen, let’s find Mr. Macklenburger and we’ll figure out an interesting role for you. Maybe you can help me interview the drama club tomorrow—just take pictures and I’ll do all the talking. But only if you want, absolutely no pressure,” said Martina.

A
She wishes she were in charge of the yearbook staff instead of the advisor.
B
She tries to manipulate new yearbook club members into doing her work.
C
She is welcoming and friendly toward new yearbook club members.
D
She values having fun over completing certain yearbook club tasks.
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Read the excerpt from "Bluesman on the Move.”All I want— to find a place where I fit in.

A
a place where he feels comfortable and accepted
B
a place where he is able to hide his true identity
C
a place where he can store all of his belongings
D
a place where he stands out because he is unique

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