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The term “minority group” refers to:

The term “race” is socially defined on the basis of physical criteria such as skin color.

When Beto goes to college, the narrator ____________ to make money.  

Mrs. Pike figures out that Mrs. Fletcher is ____________.   

What makes for an effective Creative Non-Fiction Piece?  Use an example or two from the reading.    

Passage Explication 1: Cumulative The next day he called and when I heard his voice I was cool but I wouldn’t go to the mall or anywhere else.  My mother sensed that something was wrong and pestered me about it, but I told her to leave the fuck alone, and my pops, who was home on a visit, stirred himself from the couch to slap me down.  Mostly I stayed in the basement, terrified that I would end up abnormal, a fucking pato, but he was my best friend and back then that mattered to me more than anything.  This alone got me out of the apartment and over to the pool that night.  He was already there, his body pale and flabby under the water.  Hey, he said.  I was beginning to worry about you.    

Sylvia Plath was married to _____________.  

At the end of “Desiree’s Baby,” we find out that Armand is ____________.  

Passage Explication 5: There are, of course, other ways to kill your lobster on-site and so achieve maximum freshness.  Some cooks’ practice is to drive a sharp heavy knife point-first into a spot just above the midpoint between the lobster’s eye-stalks (more or less where Third-Eye is in human foreheads).  This is alleged either to kill the lobster instantly or to render it insensate, and is said at least to eliminate some of the cowardice involved in throwing a creature into boiling water and then fleeing the room.  

Sexton has a poem that eulogizes ___________.