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What does the word "hysterical" mean?
What is incredibly upset; distraught
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What does the word "complied" mean?
What is to act according to a wish or command
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Who is the "she" referred to at the start of paragraph 22?
What is Julia's mother
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When Julia writes, "still my mother found ways of controlling me" she means her mother
What is found ways to make her behave the way she wanted her to
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What does "plain woman" mean?
What is not extraordinarily beautiful, average looks
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What is Julia's mom afraid of SIM finding out?
What is Julia's dad's meetings with the young revolutionary
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What does the phrase "hotheaded attendance" reveal about Julia's dad?
What is he had a quick temper, was passionate over the attendance of these meetings
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As a baby, Julia was the best behaved until she learned how to
What is talk
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What's one way Julia's mother tried to control her?
What is Trujillo cautionary tales, threats to disown Julia
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How does this paragraph change in style to previous paragraphs?
What is contains direct dialogue between Julia and her mother.
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WHY is Julia's mom so afraid of her dad attending meetings in New York?
What is If the SIM found out, family and friends in the Dominican Republic could be in danger
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After Julia's dad stopped attending meetings his "silence deepened." How does this further develop the idea of silence?
What is once isolated from group meetings, his fear (and therefore silence) deepened
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What rhetorical device is used in the phrase, "childhood was rocky, but adolescence was a full fledged war"?
What is metaphor
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Where did Julia's mother learn what it meant to be disrespected?
What is under Trujillo's dictatorship, which meant anything short of worship
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What does Julia's mother mean when she said, "if looks could kill..."
What is Both mother and daughter were furious with one another
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What happened to a Columbia University professor who was an exhile from Dominican Republic and anti-Trujillo?
What is he was disappeared from a New York subway
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Why did Julia's parents confiscate the Time magazine article from their daughters?
What is so they would not know about the violence and evil happening in the Dominican Republic
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How does the author set this paragraph up to create contrast?
What is she focuses on her mother's silence and Julia's inability to be silent.
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Why did Julia's mother believe Eleanor Roosevelt's grandson ought to be ashamed of himself?
What is she believed he disrespected his grandmother by calling her a plain woman.
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What is a central idea in this paragraph?
What is either respect/worship, silence, family
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What is the central idea in paragraph 20?
What is fear
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The phrase "En boca cerrada no entran moscas" was scratched into the SIM torture center in the Dominican Republic. What does it mean?
What is No flies fly into a closed mouth.
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What is the tone of this paragraph?
What is somber
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Based on your understanding of Julia's mother's belief about respect, and the text as a whole, do you think she would see "Genetics of Justice" as being disrespectful?
What is Either answer is fine so long as it's supported with well-developed thought and evidence from text
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How does Julia create a character foil to her mother through herself?
What is a character foil are two characters paired together to enhance one another's characteristics/extremes (think Spongebob and Squidward). Julia contrasts her outspokenness to her mother's silence to make each characteristic seem more extreme.