Quiz on Caroline Pari’s “La Famiglia to Academia: A Dutiful Daughter Becomes an Academic Doubter”

Quiz on Caroline Pari’s “La Famiglia to Academia:

A Dutiful Daughter Becomes an Academic Doubter”

Finish each sentence in a way that is (1) accurate to the reading and (2) grammatically correct, given the sentence structure I’ve provided. Please copy out the full sentence as your answer, as I want you to practice varying your sentence structure.

1.     During her years at school, not only did Pari feel ___­________, but also _____________ (see parag. 4).[1]

2.     Pari’s father ignored ___________, yet reacted with anger to ____________ (see parag. 3).[2]

3.     Recognizing that her father felt threatened by her use of “big words,” _______________ (see parag. 4).

4.     While Pari has gained _________________  (see parag. 2), she feels she had to trade away _____________ and ________________ (see parag. 6 and 8).[3]

5.     Because her mother reacted to reading Pari’s work with ____________ , _____________. (see parag. 8)[4]

6.     Although Pari chose to continue her advanced education, __________________.[5]

Answer the following two questions:

1.     Pat Belanoff says “working-class speakers are likely to adjust their language toward the formal more radically than other language users.” What does she mean? Do you think she is right?

2.     Pari calls her new self an “academic doubter.” What do you think she means by that?

[1] “Not only [x], but also [y]” is useful to emphasize the latter half [y] of the sentence. Both [x] and [y] should be related/of the same kind of thing, and [y] should be somehow greater than [x]. Not only did I eat a slice of pie, but also a whole pint of ice cream.

[2] “Yet” means the same thing as “but.”

[3] “While [x], [y].”  In this sentence, [x] and [y] are somehow opposing. While I usually eat vanilla ice cream, yesterday I ordered chocolate.

[4] “Because [x], [y].” The [x] is the cause of [y]. Because I ate way too much ice cream, I threw up.

[5] “Although [x], [y]” works the same way as “While [x], [y].” Basically, it says ‘even though x is true, y is also true, and we’re a little bit surprised because [x] and [y] are somehow opposing.’ Although I threw up from eating that much ice cream, I would not hesitate to do it again.