New Jersey NJSLA-Adaptive ELA Grade 9 Practice Questions - New Jersey Student Learning Assessments-Adaptive English Language Arts - Grade 9 Exam

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Read the passage: Lena kept a box of her mother's letters beneath her bed, pulling them out on nights when the apartment felt too quiet. Each letter smelled faintly of lavender, the scent her mother always wore, and reading them made Lena feel as though the walls between past and present had thinned to paper. Her roommate asked why she never threw the letters away. Lena said, "They're not paper. They're the bridge between who I was and who I'm becoming." What theme does the passage develop about memory and identity?

Physical objects are clutter that should be discarded to make room for growth. Memories, preserved through meaningful objects, help shape a person's evolving identity. Lavender is the most important detail in the passage, showing the mother's personality. Roommates should not question how others choose to live.

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Memories, preserved through meaningful objects, help shape a person's evolving identity.

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