Who is the main character of the text, "Barrio Boy?" What country did he and his family immigrate from?

Which of the following inferences about the narrator is best supported by the first paragraph of the excerpt?

The two of us walked south on Fifth Street one morning to the corner of Q Street and turned right. Half of the block was occupied by the Lincoln School. It was a three-story wooden building, with two wings that gave it the shape of a double-T connected by a central hall. It was a new building, painted yellow, with a shingled roof that was not like the red tile of the school in Mazatlán. I noticed other differences, none of them very reassuring.

Which of the following sentences most strongly supports the answer to question 2?

The author most likely included the following sentence to _____________.

Almost tiptoeing across the office, I maneuvered myself to keep my mother between me and the gringo lady.

What information mainly does the following passage convey (paragraph 12)?

Miss Ryan took me to a seat at the front of the room, into which I shrank—the better to survey her. She was, to skinny, somewhat runty me, of a withering height when she patrolled the class. And when I least expected it, there she was, crouching by my desk, her blond radiant face level with mine, her voice patiently maneuvering me over the awful idiocies of the English language.

Which of the following selections best identifies the main idea of the following paragraph (paragraph 17)?

At Lincoln, making us into Americans did not mean scrubbing away what made us originally foreign. The teachers called us as our parents did, or as close as they could pronounce our names in Spanish or Japanese. No one was ever scolded or punished for speaking in his native tongue on the playground. Matti told the class about his mother’s down quilt, which she had made in Italy with the fine feathers of a thousand geese. Encarnación acted out how boys learned to fish in the Philippines. I astounded the third grade with the story of my travels on a stagecoach, which nobody else in the class had seen except in the museum at Sutter’s Fort. It was easy for me to feel that becoming a proud American, as she said we should, did not mean feeling ashamed of being a Mexican.