The following question refers to "daughter of invention" by julia alvarez. why do the narrator (yolanda) and her sisters resent mami's inventing?
a. because she spent all day working on them and never did anything else
b. because she embarrassed them by telling their friends her ideas
c. because she was always busy, and they wanted her trying to figure out how to be american kids
d. because she was becoming famous for her inventions and was never around

Which line from extremely loud and incredibly close reveals a melancholy tone? as for the bracelet mom wore to the funeral, what i did was i converted dad’s last voice message into morse code, and i used sky-blue beads for silence, maroon beads for breaks between letters . . she said it was the best gift she’d ever received. i asked her if it was better than the edible tsunami, from when i was interested in edible meteorological events. she said, “different.” i wanted to tell her she shouldn’t be playing scrabble yet. or looking in the mirror. or turning the stereo any louder than what you needed just to hear it. it wasn’t fair to dad, and it wasn’t fair to me. i made her other morse code jewelry with dad’s messages—a necklace, an anklet, some dangly earrings, a tiara—but the bracelet was definitely the most beautiful, probably because it was the last, which made it the most precious.

It can be inferred that the dramatic increase in defense spending by germany was the result of. (a) attempts by great britain to take german colonies. ( b) fear of a two-front war against france and russia (c) the need to put down a communist rebellion (d) a competition with the allies to produce atomic weapons

On the map above, areas along the coast are colored green (letter b). what type of climate do these areas have? a. arid b. semiarid c. mediterranean d. humid subtropical