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Question 4 • CMS 2025-2026 English I CREDIT RECOVERY

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

Answer

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."

Yoyo and her sisters were forgetting a lot of their Spanish, and their father's formal, florid diction was hard to understand.

"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? "

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

Explanation

The father objects that the poem is boastful and shows no gratitude, reflecting traditional values of humility, respect, and appreciation for one’s teacher. His criticism in choice C most clearly shows him trying to preserve those values. Choice A mentions keeping Spanish, but the speaker’s reply rejects that effort in favor of assimilation.

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