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Danielle Ofri, SAT

Danielle Ofri, SAT

Read SAT and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. In this essay, Ofri speaks from the perspective of a

doctor.

writer.

teacher.

mother.

2. What did Nemesio Rios want to be when he grew up?

a basketball player

a chief executive officer

a doctor

a comedian

3. What personal question does the boy ask Ofri?

if she ever had to face peer pressure

if she ever had been in trouble with the law

if she ever cheated on an important exam

if she remembered the first time she had sex

4. Who was lying on the last table in the autopsy room?

a twelve-year-old boy with a bullet hole in his chest

Nemesio’s cousin

a police officer killed by a kid about Nemesio’s age

an old man

5. Why did Ofri feel the SAT was necessary for Nemesio?

College would give him the opportunity to play basketball.

He showed an unusual interest in medicine.

Passing the SAT and going to college just might keep him from getting killed.

He was the only one of his siblings who had no plans to go to college.