Daughter of Invention (page 663)
Selection Quiz
Recall the events in Aberer's short story and then answer the questions
1. How does the discovery that someone has stolen her idea for suitalises with
wheels affect the mother?
2. Why is the narrator at first unable to write a teacher's-day speech?
3. What ideas in Whitman's poetry finally inspire her to write a speech?
4. What memories of the Dominican Republic influence her father's opinion
of the speech?
5. How is her mother's speech different from her own?


What are the answers?