The mother has an external conflict with these girls who mock her 'dumb' inventions.
Who are the daughters?
100
This person helps the narrator write a second speech the night before it is to be presented.
Who is the mother?
100
The narrator is most likely afraid of reading a speech in front of the school because the kids will make fun of her:
What is Spanish accent?
200
A denial of responsibility or knowledge
What is disclaimer?
200
The mother likes to draw pictures of these.
What are inventions?
200
The father disapproves of this and rips it to pieces.
What is the speech?
200
The father gives this to the narrator as a way of apologizing.
What is an electric typewriter?
200
The narrator's father dreams of moving back to this country.
What is the Dominican Republic?
300
Copied from someone else's writings
What is plagiarized?
300
The narrator is disappointed in her mother because she is not living up to the image of this.
What is an American mom?
300
The narrator's parents grew up in a place where questioning authority would get you into a lot of trouble, but the narrator grew up in America. This creates conflict between the daughter and her parents:
What is a generation gap?
300
The narrator calls the second speech her "last"...
What is invention?
300
Working at this place shows how the mother has changed since coming to the United States.
What is the father's office?
400
Disobedient to a superior
What is insubordinate?
400
The daughters refuse to go to school because the kids are doing this.
What is throwing rocks?
400
The father has nightmares of these people coming after him and his family.
Who are the Dominican authorities?
400
At the end of the narrator's speech, the audience gave these people a standing ovation.
What are devoted teachers?
400
This proverb is what the mother meant to say, but she misquotes and says "daughter of invention"
What is, "Necessity is the mother of invention."
500
An inaccurate or incorrect name.
What is misnomer?
500
The father had lost brothers and friends to this dictator.
Who is Trujillo?
500
The narrator calls her father this nickname of a brutal dictator.
What is "Chapita?"
500
The narrator ends up finding her voice after reading poetry by this author.
Who is Walt Whitman?
500
This was the nickname that the mother calls the narrator.