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Question 1

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Leon turned to look up at the high blue mountains in the deep snow that reflected a faint red light from the west. He felt good because it was finished, and he was happy about the sprinkling of the holy water; now the old man could send them big thunderclouds for sure.

Question 2

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?

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Mom says “Communist” the way some people says “cancer,” low and fierce. ✓ Correct

Question 3

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?

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Jorge understands that mother-daughter relationships can be complex.

Question 4

Read the passage from “Child of the Americas.”I am not african. Africa is in me, but I cannot return. I am not taína. Taíno is in me, but there is no way back. I am not european. Europe lives in me, but I have no home there. What does this passage reveal about the speaker of the poem?

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It shows that she embraces all parts of her heritage by refusing to be classified as one in particular.

Question 5

Read the passage from “Child of the Americas.”I am of Latinoamerica, rooted in the history of my continent: I speak from that body. In these two lines, the speaker is showing how

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culture is embedded in a person’s identity.

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