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Exploring Cultural Identity through Language — Unit test

Question 13 • AISD English III 2026_27 Sem B

Read the passage from the poem "El Olvido" by Julia Ortiz Cofer.dangerousto disdain the plaster saintsbefore which your mother kneelspraying with embarrassing fervorthat you survive in the place you have chosen to live:a bare, cold room with no pictures on the walls,a forgetting place where she fears you will dieof loneliness and exposure.What imagery in this passage creates a visual of the speaker’s heritage?

Answer
A
“loneliness and exposure”
B
“plaster saints,” “mother kneels praying”
C
“the place you have chosen to live,” “a forgetting place”
D
“a bare, cold room with no pictures on the walls”
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