Only Daughter

Cisneros frustrated her father after finishing her education because

• she failed to become a doctor.

• she didn’t find a husband during the college years.

• she married her husband before going to college.

• he traveled and gave up communicating with the family.

What is the main message that Sandra delivered through her essay?

• family should gather in every celebration

• money is not the key for happiness

• believe in yourself to reach your dream.

• Mexican-American mothers are unique.

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How does Cisneros’s style and voice in "Only Daughter" tell you her heritage is important to her?

• She refers to her home town often.

• She mentions an Italian filmmaker

• She discusses her father’s habits reading of reading Latin.

• She uses a lot of Spanish words and phrases.

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What advantage does Cisneros see in being the only daughter?

• she learnt all the household affairs.

• she was pampered by everyone in the family.

• she could think and create things as a would-be writer.

• she could travel everywhere she desired.

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Cisneros's father wanted his children to

• love each other and stop fighting.

• value their sister as a female in the house.

• visit him regularly.

• use their minds in making money rather than their hands.

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How does Cisneros describe her father as a reader?

• He reads sports magazines or pulp fiction, but he doesn’t read for literary value.

• He reads for the whole family.

• He reads novels with strong and twisted plots.

• He reads the Bible only.

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What does Cisneros mean when she writes that being an only daughter in a family of six sons "explains everything"?

• Cisneros means she came first.

• Cisneros means that it was hard because she was the only one looked down upon among the children in her family, and all her brothers were seen as more important.

• Cisneros means there was not enough time to enjoy her childhood.

• Cisneros means she was the most important.

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What can the reader infer from the sentence below:

"Where can we get more copies of this for the relatives?"

• Cisneros father did not like the book.

• Cisneros father wanted a better looking book

• Cisneros father was proud and wanted to show her work off.

• Cisneros father could not read the book he had.

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Cisneros explains that everything she has ever written has been for her father.

Why did the she include this information?

• to reveal Mexican values to society

• to explain the reasons for her wrtiting

• to showcase the importance of details in a non-fiction piece

• to demonstrate a daughter's love and search for approval

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Why does her father think she has wasted her education? What is her reaction to his opinion?

• She majored in something silly like English.

• She didn't marry.

• she didn't find a good job.

• She couldn't write in spanish.

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