|Abe) Read the excerpt from "First Generation" of Dreaming in Cuban, by Cristina Garcia.
She considers the vagaries of sports, the happenstance of El Lider, a star pitcher in his youth, narrowly
missing a baseball career in America. His wicked curveball attracted the major league scouts, and the
Washington Senators were interested in signing him but changed their minds. Frustrated, El Lider went home,
rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the a mountains.
Which best explains how Garcia's word choice helps establish her voice in the excerpt?
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Garcia uses short, forceful words to assert a pessimistic opinion on fate.
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Garcia uses formal, academic language and location words to suggest a theory about fate.
O Garcia uses American baseball terminology to suggest fate's defeat.
O Garcia uses words with positive connotations to suggest an optimistic outlook on fate.

The brother of a presidential candidate writes an editorial in which he defends this candidate against charges of corruption. in such a circumstance, it is most appropriate for the reader to a) suspect that the candidate may have been framed. b) consider whether the candidate has the best family or not. c) wonder if the writer may be biased, due to his family connection. d) wonder if the writer may be inaccurate, due to wanting to get people to read his column. \

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator

Question 12(multiple choice worth 2 points) the arrangements of elements in a photograph is called aperture focus composition framing