Question 18
In Only Daughter, which of the following quotes best supports the author's need for her father to be proud of her?
a) "She teaches. "Es maestra-teacher."
b) "I wanted my father to understand what it was I was scribbling, to introduce me as "My only daughter, the writer."
c) "What I didn't realize was that my father thought college was good for girls-for finding a husband."
"After four years in college and two more in graduate school, and still no husband, my father shakes his head even now and says
I wasted all that education."

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia