In “Silent Dancing,” Cofer explores the personal, familial, and communal transformations that resulted from moving in the 1950s to Paterson, New Jersey---to “a huge tenement that had once housed Jewish families?(paragraph 2) and to a new community that emerged from the sprawling barrio that Puerto Ricans “overflowing from New york City” (paragraph 2) called home. Reread the essay carefully, and summarize the transformations that occurred in the life of the narrator, her family, and their larger Puerto Rican community.

the answer would be, she updates her online profiles regularly and participates in work-related online discussions.

the correct answer is a "it describes nora and mrs. linde's relationship". opcions b and d are not related to the content of the passage in any way. option c could be appropiate but it does not fully capture the effect of the dialogue, while option a is quite appropiate, since the dialogue not only exemplifies the relationship between the characters, but it also captures the effect in the excerpt. we get to know that mrs linde bosses around and already knows nora.