Iulid read this passage from judith ortiz cofer's "gravity": i could never ask any of my friends over to our apartment. they would have suffered culture shock. what internal conflict does the external conflict in this passage suggest? a. elenita struggles to keep her identities separate. b. elenita's mother tries to force her cultural values on others. c. elenita is losing her faith in religion and spirituality. d. elenita's father chooses not to return to puerto rico

A) Elenita struggles to keep her identities separate.

Explanation: in literature, a conflict is a struggle between opposite forces, usually between a character (the main character or a very important one) and himself (internal conflict), society or another character (external conflict). In the given passage from Judith Ortiz Cofer's "Gravity" we can see an example of an external conflict in the fact that Elenita can't invite her friends over to her apartment, but it reflects the internal conflict that  Elenita struggles to keep her identities separate ("they would have suffered culture shock").

A) Elenita struggles to keep her identities separate.

Explanation:

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the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”