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Read the text
Moving Home
By Heidi Stemple

I have no stories of family drama in my childhood. My parents were hippies and we lived with a barn-full of
artisans1 who created the most amazing silver, leather, and pottery items. My younger brothers and I
had fields to explore and a pool tucked behind one of the barns. We had our own pottery wheels and the
potters baked our pots in the kiln2 with theirs. My mom was a writer and my dad a professor who loved
birds. I grew up and moved away. My family was different. Not bad, but different. My children are twelve years apart, and we lived in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on a cul-de-sac3 next to our best friends, the Napiers.
Everything was fine until crisis struck. Back at home, my dad was diagnosed with cancer. Suddenly, there was
too much distance between my family and my parents. I called my brothers — both equally far away. Someone needed to go home. I wanted it to be me. Both my brothers agreed that they were not able to pack up and relocate and loved the idea that I was willing — and ready — to do so. My husband agreed. Then we needed to talk to our daughters. They were reluctant of course. They didn’t want to leave their home.
So, as a family, we sat down to write a pros-and-cons list of moving. At first, the list was hard to figure out. I knew what my kids would gain by moving — their grandparents, full-time. Plus a hometown on a farm, surrounded by family and art and education. But my kids were dubious.4 All they could add to the list weighted
the con side. For a week, we worked on that list. As the days went by, the cons all got crossed out, replaced by counterparts
on the pro side. Changing schools, for example, had originally begun as a con, but as we talked it out, it started
to look like an adventure. Leaving the beach, which we would miss, but rarely went to anyway, got turned into
mountains and changing seasons. Pro, pro. In the end, nothing on the con side survived except leaving the
Napiers. But Nana and Papa outweighed everything else.
As we packed up and moved — my youngest and me first, then my elder daughter, then my husband with all
our belongings in a big truck, we knew that it was family that was bringing us home, and the decision was right
because we had made it as a family. No stories, especially true ones, have a perfect happily-ever-after. Though
this story ends well, we do still miss the Napiers.

1. workers who create things mostly by hand
2. an oven used for drying and baking pottery
3. a street that is closed at one end
4. Dubious (adjective) doubting
Which statement best summarizes the text? *
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A. A family makes a challenging decision about an upcoming move.
B. A family can’t decide whether moving is a good idea or not, so they don’t.
C. A family realizes that friends are more important than family, so they move.
D. A family decides to move and the kids have to follow whether they like it or not.
Which statement best expresses the theme of the text? *
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A. Eventually, parents need to be taken care of by their children.
B. Life-threatening events can help people realize what is important.
C. It’s important to make decisions that will affect a whole group as a group.
D. It’s impossible to make everyone happy when making decisions for a family.
Which statement best captures the author’s point of view about moving in the text? *
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A. She is reluctant to go home because she has a life in South Carolina.
B. She wants to move home, but knows that her husband will not agree.
C. She is ready to return home and has decided that nobody will stop her.
D. She wants to move home, but also wants to consider her family’s feelings.
Which statement best captures the relationship between the author and her daughters? *
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A. The daughters are allowed to ultimately decide whether or not they move.
B. The mom tells her daughters she will decide whether or not they move.
C. The daughters are very angry with their mother about the move.
D. The mom values her daughters’ opinions about the move.
Describe the connection between the pros-and-cons list and the decision to move. Use evidence from the text in your response. *

Answer 1

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