Young adult historical fiction can address the problem of history being taught:
a. from extreme points of view or in a manner that young adults receive a biased perspective of history.
b. in an integrated curriculum where history can play insignificant or superficial roles.
c. by history or social studies teachers who have a knowledge of history, but little knowledge and appreciation for young adult literature.
d. from a singular dimension void of human emotion or from an approach that does not show the interrelationships among the disciplines.
Question 2
In Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility (Santana, 2002), a young Hispanic girl tries to:
a. help her brother deal with his emotional problems when he return homes from the Vietnam War.
b. resolve her cultural differences and identity while attending school where the majority culture differs.
c. deal with the trauma of her mother being called a witch.
d. goes to live with her cousins in Puerto Rico for the summer and deals with different cultural expectations.
