Part A Which inference can be made about the author's experiences in "Barrio Boy?" The author believes Lincoln School is a domineering place where the educators are intent on forcing him to renounce his heritage and adopt the American way of life. The author thinks his teachers and his classmates are barriers to his learning English and to his integration into American life. The author finds his classmates disrespectful of his Mexican heritage, which causes him to feel alienated from them and his instructors. The author sees his time at Lincoln School positively and thinks other students there did, too. Part B Select the excerpt that best supports the answer in Part A. "Like Ito and several other first graders who did not know English, I received private lessons from Miss Ryan in the closet, a narrow hall off the classroom with a door at each end." "Step by step, she loosened me and my classmates from the safe anchorage of the desks for recitations at the blackboard and consultations at her desk. Frequently she burst into happy announcements to the whole class." "During the next few weeks Miss Ryan overcame my fears of tall, energetic teachers as she bent over my desk to help me with a word in the pre-primer." "We were, of course, saying nothing, only catching the friendliness of her voice and the sparkle in her eyes while she said words we did not understand. She signaled us to the table."