Writing a Personal Narrative that Expresses Your Identity — Unit test

Question 13 • SS-English Language Arts 7

Read each quotation from Barrio Boy and the statement below it. Which statement is a correct inference based on the quotation?

Answer

You never knew when a compadre or comadre, of your aunt, or your uncle, or your father, or your mother was watching.Ernesto's childhood was tense at times.

People talked to one another on the street in low tones; only drunks and muchachitos mal educados raised their voices, or the arrieros when they shouted to their donkeys.Ernesto's family owned a donkey.

Our train was still there, the flats and boxcars and coaches deserted, Mexican and American soldiers walking back and forth.Ernesto felt safe at the train station.

We stayed only one day at the hotel, long enough for me to become acquainted with the bathtub, located in another closet next to the toilet.Ernesto normally takes a bath every day.

Explanation

The quotation says Ernesto never knew when a compadre, comadre, aunt, uncle, or parent might be watching. This suggests he was under close observation and may have felt pressure to behave, supporting the inference that his childhood was tense at times. The other quotations do not establish that his family owned a donkey, that he felt safe at the station, or that he usually bathed every day.

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