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Characters, Conflict, and Idioms in "Daughter of Invention" by Julia Alvarez Answers

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himself
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nature
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others
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society
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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.

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Anything can be accomplished.
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Anyone can make money.
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A little encouragement goes a long way.
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Every story needs to have a point.
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What variations in language can a reader look for to better understand a character? Choose four answers.

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voice
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pronunciation
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volume
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vocabulary
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syntax
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grammar
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Which excerpt from "Daughter of Invention" reveals Laura’s Dominican origin through unique pronunciation?

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

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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."
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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?"
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"This is America, Papi, America! You are not in a savage country anymore!"
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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.

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Yoyo is frustrated by her inability to write a good speech for the assembly at her school.
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Yoyo is worried about insulting her teachers and peers with the speech she has written.
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Yoyo is saddened by her father’s disapproval of the message in her speech for the assembly.
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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"."iYa, ya!" She waved them out of her room at last. "There is no use trying to drink spilt milk, that's for sure."

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She wants her daughters to learn from her mistakes.
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She does not want to dwell on something that cannot be changed.
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She intends to invent many more useful things she can patent.
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She wishes that she had been the one to patent the suitcase with wheels.
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grammar
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rhyming words
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wordiness
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word usage
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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.

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They sometimes wish their mother would be more like the American moms.
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They sometimes wish their mother would stop inventing useless things.
C
They sometimes wish their mother would fuss over them more than she does.
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They sometimes wish their mother would move them to the Dominican Republic.
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Which excerpt from "Daughter of Invention" contains language that best reveals that Carlos is still tied to his Dominican origin?

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He sat bolt upright, reaching for his glasses which in his haste, he knocked across the room. "iQue pasa? iQue pasa?"
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“...It is boastful. I celebrate myself? The best student learns to destroy the teacher?" He mocked Yoyo's plagiarized words.
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"Have you gone mad?" He shook her away. "You were going to let her read that . . . that insult to her teachers?"
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He called down curses on her head, ordered her on his authority as her father to open that door!

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