Part A

In "Primary Lessons" from Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood," what inference can be made about how the author is feeling when she reflects back on her early years in the United States?


The author is resentful.

She is relieved to have left.

She is bothered by her memories.

The author is homesick.
Question 2
Part B

Which sentence from the text most clearly supports the answer in Part A?


"...it had been complete chaos, with several children to get ready for school."

"... I had dissolved into a pool of total self-pity."

..."back to where I imagined our apartment waited, peaceful and cool, for the three of us to return to our former lives."

"...it failed miserably because I was shouting my defiance in the language I claimed not to speak."