PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A? A
“I had become the spokesman for my sisters, and I would stand my ground in that bedroom. ‘We’re not going to that school anymore, Mami!’” ( Paragraph 7)
B
“‘Take a guess, Cukita?’ I’d study her rough sketch a moment: soap sprayed from the nozzle head of a shower when you turned the knob a certain way?” ( Paragraph 17)
C
“I needed to settle somewhere, and the natives were unfriendly, the country inhospitable, so I took root in the language.” ( Paragraph 27)
D
“That night, at last, I started to write, recklessly, three, five pages, looking up once only to see my father passing by the hall on tiptoe. When I was done, I read over my words, and my eyes filled.” ( Paragraph 34)
E
“‘The best student learns to destroy the teacher’?’ He mocked my plagiarized words. ‘That is insubordinate. It is improper. It is disrespecting of her teachers—‘” ( Paragraph 42)
F
“It was as if she had passed on to me her pencil and pad and said, ‘Okay, Cukita, here’s the buck. You give it a shot.’” ( Paragraph 62)