Plz hurry! timed quiz
read this excerpt from henry ford’s autobiography, my life and work.

it was life on the farm that drove me into devising ways and means to better transportation. i was born on july 30, 1863, on a farm at dearborn, michigan, and my earliest recollection is that, considering the results, there was too much work on the place. that is the way i still feel about farming. there is a legend that my parents were very poor and that the early days were hard ones. certainly they were not rich, but neither were they poor. as michigan farmers went, we were prosperous. the house in which i was born is still standing, and it and the farm are part of my present holding.

which is the best source to use to confirm the information in this excerpt?

travel brochure about dearborn, michigan
book about american farming in the 1800s
website providing a timeline of ford’s life
magazine article about the ford motor corporation

Which sentence from the story best illustrates how jeannette feels about her family’s choice of vacation?

Based on what you have read, write two or three sentences explaining what the point of view in the memoir allows readers to learn about helen keller.

Read the excerpt from cristina garcia’s dreaming in cuban. i don’t really want to talk about my father but i end up telling minnie how he used to take me horseback riding on our ranch, strapping me in his saddle with a leather seat belt he designed just for me. dad’s family owned casinos in cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island. there were beef cattle and dairy cows, horses, pigs, goats, and lambs. dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins. he took me on an overnight inspection once. we camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old women’s voices. my father knew i understood more than i could say. he told me stories about cuba after columbus came. he said that the spaniards wiped out more indians with smallpox than with muskets. how does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage? it includes historical information about the spaniards and indians to indicate the work is nonfiction. it describes the setting of the ranch owned by pilar’s cuban grandparents to explain family values. it uses several narrators to share their points of view about past and present life in cuba. it manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the close relationship between pilar and her father.