Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".
The house fell silent a moment, before Yoyo heard, far off, the gun blasts and explosions, the serious, self-important voices of newscasters reporting their TV war.
What type of conflict is presented in this excerpt?
A conflict with other characters.
A conflict within one character.
A conflict with nature.
A conflict within society.
A conflict within society.
Which excerpt from "Daughter of Invention" contains language that best reveals that Carlos is still tied to his Dominican origin?
He sat bolt upright, reaching for his glasses which in his haste, he knocked across the room. "iQue pasa? iQue pasa?"
“...It is boastful. I celebrate myself? The best student learns to destroy the teacher?" He mocked Yoyo's plagiarized words.
"Have you gone mad?" He shook her away. "You were going to let her read that . . . that insult to her teachers?"
He called down curses on her head, ordered her on his authority as her father to open that door!
"iQue pasa? iQue pasa?"
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.
What conflict does Yoyo face in this excerpt?
Yoyo is frustrated by her inability to write a good speech for the assembly at her school.
Yoyo is worried about insulting her teachers and peers with the speech she has written.
Yoyo is saddened by her father’s disapproval of the message in her speech for the assembly.
Yoyo is reminded of the terrors her father faced under the dictatorship of the Dominican Republic.
Yoyo is saddened by her father’s disapproval of the message in her speech for the assembly.
Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".
"What ees wrrrong with her eh-speech?" Carlos wagged his head at her. His anger was always more frightening in his broken English. As if he had mutilated the language in his fury—and now there was nothing to stand between them and his raw, dumb anger. "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?" He mocked Yoyo's plagiarized words. "That is insubordinate. It is improper. It is disrespecting of her teachers—" In his anger he had forgotten his fear of lurking spies: each wrong he voiced was a decibel higher than the last outrage. Finally, he shouted at Yoyo, "As your father, I forbid you to make that eh-speech!"
What does Carlos’ language reveal about his character?
His accent gets stronger when he is angry.
His English vocabulary is somewhat limited.
He doesn’t understand what his daughter wrote.
He has trouble speaking clearly in English.
His English vocabulary is somewhat limited.
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.
What is the meaning of the idiom underlined in the excerpt?
Anything can be accomplished.
Anyone can make money.
A little encouragement goes a long way.
Every story needs to have a point.
A little encouragement goes a long way.
Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".
But Laura's inventing days were over just as Yoyo's were starting up with her school-wide success. Rather than the rolling suitcase everyone else in the family remembers, Yoyo thinks of the speech her mother wrote as her last invention. It was as if, after that, her mother had passed on to Yoyo her pencil and pad and said, "Okay, Cuquita, here's the buck. You give it a shot."
Which context clue provides the best hint for the meaning of the underlined idiom in this excerpt?
But Laura’s inventing days were over
the rolling suitcase everyone else in the family remembers
Yoyo thinks of the speech her mother wrote as her last invention
after that, her mother had passed on to Yoyo her pencil and pad