Read the excerpt from cristina garcia's dreaming in cuban. my father knew i understood more than i could say. he told me stories about cuba after columbus came. he said that the spaniards wiped out more indians with smallpox than with muskets. which best describes an element of magic realism used by garcia in this excerpt? a) she shows the close relationship that pilar had with her father. b) she connects the events to the colonial history of latin america. c) she is a modern writer developing a story about spanish history. d) she characterizes columbus's discovery as an extraordinary event.

One of the author’s purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . enormous speed