Reread paragraphs 7–10 of the text. Then answer the multiple-choice questions that follow.

From “So where are you from?” by Naomi Sepiso

7 Sometimes she felt tired of being watered down to belonging to a foreign location on a map. To being a friend that made someone else a little more ‘cultured’ by simple association. As though everything else she had to offer became lacking in value every time someone asked her the question.

8 She was not someone from a place. She made a home of kind words and warm feelings. Her soul became a safe nest deep inside the confines of her body.

9 ‘What is the value of a land I come from. We are all of this land. We came the same way and we leave the same way.’ By the time the words fought their way out of her mouth everyone else had moved on.

10 One day they would come to understand, she thought. She was not the land of her mother and father. She was her own country, with her own history of civil wars, revolutions, healing and growth. One day they would learn to keep their boxes away from her. One day they would see that she will never, ever, fit.

Part A

What idea is supported by the evidence the author gives in paragraph 7?

Answer choices for the above question

A. The author doesn’t like being valued only because she comes from a foreign place.

B. The author is flattered that others assume she is from a different country.

C. The author feels she has less value to others because she looks different.

D. The author likes people to ask where she is from so that she can tell her story.

Part B

How does the author further develop the idea from Part A in paragraph 8?

Answer choices for the above question

A. She shares the story of her background with those who ask where she is from.

B. She tells readers that they should treat wherever they are living as their home.

C. She defines her version of a home as a collection of positive words and feelings that she keeps with her, not a geographic location.

D. She guesses that others must find value in positive words and feelings, and she wishes people would share those with her as well.

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