Question 7 • CMS 2026-2027 English III CREDIT RECOVERY
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?
Answer
A
I take all my money out of the bank, $120, money I earned slaving away at my mother’s bakery, and buy a one-way bus ticket to Miami.
B
Mom tried to pull me away but I clung to the Abuela and screamed at the top of my lungs.
C
I was only two years old when I left Cuba but I remember everything that’s happened to me since I was a baby, even word-for-word conversations.
D
Mom says “Communist” the way some people says “cancer,” low and fierce.
Explanation
The excerpt shows that the character is suspicious of leftist ideas and searches newspapers for evidence of conspiracies. The earlier segment about Mom saying “Communist” like “cancer” reveals her strong fear and hostility toward communism, which helps explain that behavior. The other segments focus on leaving Cuba, a childhood separation, or memory, rather than attitudes toward communism.
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