Question 15
Abuelita Sees the Ocean
(1) My grandmother and I were sitting on the porch one hot, sunny summer morning. (2) She had just made lemonade the way only Abuelita can, not too sweet. (3) Lots of ice and a thin yellow slice of real lemon floated in each of our glasses. (4) We closed our eyes and took a long drink. (5) “Let it cool you as it flows down to your toes,” she said. (6) She’d only been here for six months after leaving Mexico city.
(7) “I love to wiggle my toes in the sand at the beach and feel the waves come up over them,” I said after finishing half of my lemonade in one long drink.
(8) “Oh, have you been there? Abuelita asked.” (9) I was shocked to learn she had never seen the ocean. (10) I thought everyone in Mexico and California had been to the beach! (11) It was time to take her there.
(12) The next day was Saturday, and we all got into our car: Abuelita, Mami, Papi, my older brother Carlos, and me. (13) It took about an hour and a half to get there, which is why we don’t go very often. (14) When we do go though, we have so much fun.
(15) No amount of fun could compare, though, to the look in Abuelita’s eyes when she saw that infinite field of blue that is the Pacific ocean. (16) Tears filled her eyes, and she couldn’t even find the words to say what she was feeling, either in English or Spanish.
(17) We spread out our blankets, towels, umbrella, and all the other things that people take to the beach. (18) We had a big bottle full of Abuelita’s ice-cold lemonade; as a result, it tasted even better than the day before. (19) I even persuaded Abuelita to go into the water with me, begining of course with our toes wiggling in the sand. (20) Instead of cooling off from the head down, we cooled ourselves from our toes up as we entered the reflecting splash of waves that reached out to greet us.
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Please correctly answer all four of the questions below about the above passage before moving on to the next question!
15a. What is the correct way to capitalize the underlined words in sentence 6?
15 b. Which is the correct way to punctuate sentence 8?
A. “Oh, have you been there, Abuelita asked?”
B. “Oh, have you been there?” Abuelita asked.
C. “Oh,” have you been there? Abuelita asked.
D. Oh, have you been there? “Abuelita asked.”
15c. How should sentence 18 be correctly written?
15d. What is the correct spelling of the underlined word in sentence 19?
