Question 15 • CMS 2025-2026 English I CREDIT RECOVERY
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. Based on this excerpt, what can be concluded about the daughters?
Answer
A
They sometimes wish their mother would fuss over them more than she does.
B
They sometimes wish their mother would stop inventing useless things.
C
They sometimes wish their mother would be more like the American moms.
D
They sometimes wish their mother would move them to the Dominican Republic.
Explanation
The excerpt contrasts being a “Mami,” who fusses, scolds, and gives advice, with being a “Mom,” described as a “girlfriend parent.” Yoyo’s use of “Mom” suggests that the daughters feel their mother has failed to parent them in the more American way they expect. So they sometimes wish she would be more like American moms.
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