Part A

Based on her actions in "Mami and Papi", which statement accurately describes Negi's mother?


She loses her temper with her children too easily.

She prefers to spend her time relaxing.

She comforts her children when they are suffering.

She is overwhelmed with work.
Question 2
Part B

Which evidence from the text best supports the answer to Part A?


"'Let’s go make supper!' She singsang to make it sound like fun. Delsa and Norma followed her skirt, but I stared at the dirt, where squiggly lines stretched from one wall to the other."

"Its windows and doors were also metal, and, as we stepped in, I touched the wall and burned my fingers.'That’ll teach you,' Mami scolded."

"Mami balanced on the floorboards to her bed, lay me beside her, held me tight, kissed my forehead, my eyes, and murmured, 'It’s all right. It’s over. It’s all right.'"

"'Don’t talk back,' she said. 'You girls keep away from the house while your father is working,' she warned as we walked by my sisters having fun."