Question

Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention". The house fell silent a moment, before Yoyo heard, far off, the gun blasts and explosions, the serious, self-important voices of newscasters reporting their TV war. What type of conflict is presented in this excerpt?

Answer 1

Below are the choices that can be found elsewhere:

A conflict with other characters.
A conflict within one character.
A conflict with nature.
A conflict within society.

The type of conflict is presented in this excerpt is A conflict with other characters.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".

But Laura's inventing days were over just as Yoyo's were starting up with her school-wide success. Rather than the rolling suitcase everyone else in the family remembers, Yoyo thinks of the speech her mother wrote as her last invention. It was as if, after that, her mother had passed on to Yoyo her pencil and pad and said, "Okay, Cuquita, here's the buck. You give it a shot."

Which context clue provides the best hint for the meaning of the underlined idiom in this excerpt?

Explanation: