Question

citing evidence: informational text — quiz — level h
like hers, living in city apartments, being raised by their mothers and grandmothers. the few books she found about african americans seemed outdated. “everyone had been a slave, or escaped slavery, or learned to read during slavery,” she recalls. “i was, like, okay, this is the 1970s, have my people done anything since then?” she wondered, why aren’t there brown characters like me?
as jacqueline searched for books, she discovered something that really excited her—a picture book called stevie, by john steptoe, about an african american boy’s relationship with his foster brother. then she found a novel called zeely, by virginia hamilton, about an african american girl who visits her uncle in the south—reminding jacqueline how she had once lived with her grandparents in south carolina. books by these and other black writers meant the world to jacqueline. “thank goodness for mildred taylor and virginia hamilton and nikki giovanni,” she says, “the writers who came along and started putting black girlhood on the page in a way that felt relevant to me. and the fact that they’d once been black girls made it even more important.”
which details from the text best support the inference that jacqueline hoped to read books about experiences like her own?
jacqueline was especially grateful for dropdown authors who wrote about dropdown. reading books written by people who dropdown was very dropdown to jacqueline.

Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze the text:

1. The first blank: The text mentions "black writers" (like Mildred Taylor, Virginia Hamilton, Nikki Giovanni) who wrote about black girlhood. So the first blank should be "black" (referring to black authors).
2. The second blank: The books were about "black girlhood" (as the text says "started putting black girlhood on the page").
3. The third blank: The phrase is "Reading books written by people who..." so the third blank is "books".
4. The fourth blank: The text says these books were "relevant" to her (felt relevant to her experience).

Answer:

First dropdown: black
Second dropdown: black girlhood
Third dropdown: books
Fourth dropdown: relevant