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born like me in the chinese year of the horse—which is supposed to be bad luck if youre born female—but i think this is a chinese lie because the chinese, like the mexicans, dont like their women strong. 11 my great - grandmother. i wouldve liked to have known her, a wild horse of a woman, so wild she wouldnt marry. until my great - grandfather threw a sack over her head and carried her off. just like that, as if she were a fancy chandelier. thats the way he did it. 12 and the story goes she never forgave him. she looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow. i wonder if she made the best with what she got or was she sorry because she couldnt be all the things she wanted to be. esperanza. i have inherited her name, but i dont want to inherit her place by the window. 13 at school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth. but in spanish my name is made out of a softer something, like silver, not quite as thick as sisters name—magdalena—which is uglier than mine. magdalena who at least can come home and become nenny. but i am always esperanza. 14 i would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees. esperanza as lisandra or maritza or zeze the x. yes. something like zeze the x will do. think question 4 read the following dictionary entry: inherit in - her - it in her it verb 1. to receive money or property from someone who has died 2. to receive a genetic trait from a parent or ancestor 3. to have something, such as a job or attitude, after someone who came before you which definition most closely matches the meaning of inherit as it is used in paragraph 12? write the appropriate definition of inherit here and explain how you figured out the correct meaning.

Explanation:

In paragraph 12, the speaker says "I have inherited her name". Here, "inherit" is used in the sense of receiving something (a name, which is a form of identity or characteristic) from an ancestor (the great - grandmother). This matches the second definition of "inherit" which is "to receive a genetic trait from a parent or ancestor". A name can be seen as a kind of trait passed down in a family context.

Answer:

Definition 2. The speaker is talking about getting the name (a form of trait) from the great - grandmother (an ancestor).