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Dominicana Reading Check (pgs 111-119)

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Note from the author:
This Reading Check is OPEN NOTE!! If you have your novel, you may use it along with any of your annotations. Reminder that this Reading Check will be used toward an average of all your Dominicana Reading Checks for a total of 50 points.
This Reading Check is OPEN NOTE!! If you have your novel, you may use it along with any of your annotations. Reminder that this Reading Check will be used toward an average of all your Dominicana Reading Checks for a total of 50 points.
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What is Juan's nickname for Ana?

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Based on Ana's complex situation and current living situation, what is significant about Juan's nickname for Ana?

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"He grabs me by my waist and mashes my lips with his mouth. He pats my cheeks three times as he would a baby's bottom.

You are finally gaining some weight, parajita. I don't care for skinny women I can snap like a twig" (Cruz 112).

Which of the following provides the BEST analysis of the quote above?

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"Juan keeps his head down when he passes the police. Inside the apartment, he is a bull. On the street, he looks small, vulnerable, even scared. As if I can blow him away like a speck of dust" (Cruz 113).

What literary device is used in the sentence above? (Select all that apply).

PG 114

Dear Caridad,

Please forgive me. I so desperately want to be with you but the situation is complicated. There comes a time in a man's life he must make sacrifices for the family. You know this more than anyone, with your husband at war, not knowing if he'll ever return home. And now with Vietnam.

You ask me to come to you but I can't just leave A alone. She doesn't know anyone. Her family entrusted her to me. She's my responsibility. You have no idea how difficult this has been for me.

Cari, my life, my heart. God, I miss you, or maybe it's better to say with the distance I'm remembering you, all of you, the way your lips curl up into a question mark, always suspicious that I am up to no good. Your eyes so brilliant, always glassy and curious. God, the smell of your skin, how soft it is. The way your naked body feels next to mine. The way the light falls on our bed in the morning. And how do you always, I mean always, wake up so beautiful?

I love you. I love you,
Your Juancho.
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What intentional choice does Cruz (the author) make to convey that Juan and Caridad have an intimate relationship beyond sexual intimacy?

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Focus on characterization. What is Cruz's purpose for including this letter? (Select all that apply)

PG 116

What are you eighteen? Nineteen? Marisela asks.
Fifteen.
Oh? She looks at me as if for the first time then studies her nails long and manicured.
I was fifteen, fifteen years ago. Imagine that. And you're already married. Are your people happy for you?
Yes. They are happy.
I was one of the first to get here in '61. I would cry, asking my husband to send me back home, but what life do we have over there? It's not easy for us in this city. The only reason anyone calls from home is for money. My hands are destroyed from cleaning after people. Look how dry they are. Do you have some cream?
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Read this scene from pg 116, focusing on the bolded lines. What effect do these bolded lines have on the reader?

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"You're divine! What a gift you are. If I cooked as good as this, my husband would throw me a parade" (Cruz 118).

Whether intended or unintended, what is one outcome this line on page 118 has on the reader? (Select all that apply)