vocab game break it down read & respond lyric lab reading me a board book that had a picture of a car, i would point at it with my puny baby finger and yell “honk! honk!” and then i would grab the book and not give it back. when i was around four, my parents started taking me to drag races, and i would sit there, as riveted as if i were watching cartoons. in fact, dad and i still go sometimes. anyway, the point is, i think about cars a lot. and when i view people through my “car lens,” i’m not bad at sizing them up. take mom, for example. i figured out a while ago that she’s definitely a volkswagen beetle. not the ones from the 1990s, with the ironic flower in the dashboard and that whole “i’m so cute” vibe, but the vintage ones from the 1960s. function without the bling. that’s mom. dad, on the other hand, is a rolls-royce cullinan. function with the bling. lots of bling. the beetle and the cullinan are both great cars, but in totally different ways. they present differently, relate to the world differently, and, of course, they drive differently. it may sound silly, but this realization that mom’s a beetle and dad’s a cullinan? it helped me understand their divorce. i mean, think about it. can you see a vw beetle and a rolls-royce cullinan sharing a garage? co-existing like that? nah. re-read this sentence from the text: “dad, on the other hand, is a rolls-royce cullinan.” what does the narrator mean by this? a the narrator and his parents are personified cars of different makes. b the narrator’s father is a human who can turn into a cullinan. c the narrator believes that his father shares some qualities with cullinans. d the narrator believes that his father is actually a cullinan.

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vocab game break it down read & respond lyric lab reading me a board book that had a picture of a car, i would point at it with my puny baby finger and yell “honk! honk!” and then i would grab the book and not give it back. when i was around four, my parents started taking me to drag races, and i would sit there, as riveted as if i were watching cartoons. in fact, dad and i still go sometimes. anyway, the point is, i think about cars a lot. and when i view people through my “car lens,” i’m not bad at sizing them up. take mom, for example. i figured out a while ago that she’s definitely a volkswagen beetle. not the ones from the 1990s, with the ironic flower in the dashboard and that whole “i’m so cute” vibe, but the vintage ones from the 1960s. function without the bling. that’s mom. dad, on the other hand, is a rolls-royce cullinan. function with the bling. lots of bling. the beetle and the cullinan are both great cars, but in totally different ways. they present differently, relate to the world differently, and, of course, they drive differently. it may sound silly, but this realization that mom’s a beetle and dad’s a cullinan? it helped me understand their divorce. i mean, think about it. can you see a vw beetle and a rolls-royce cullinan sharing a garage? co-existing like that? nah. re-read this sentence from the text: “dad, on the other hand, is a rolls-royce cullinan.” what does the narrator mean by this? a the narrator and his parents are personified cars of different makes. b the narrator’s father is a human who can turn into a cullinan. c the narrator believes that his father shares some qualities with cullinans. d the narrator believes that his father is actually a cullinan.

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# Brief Explanations:
- Option A: The text focuses on parents, not the narrator, so A is wrong.
- Option B: The text uses a metaphor, not literal transformation, so B is wrong.
- Option C: The narrator compares Dad to a Cullinan (saying "Function with the bling") to show shared qualities, which fits.
- Option D: The comparison is metaphorical, not literal, so D is wrong.

# Answer:
C. The narrator believes that his father shares some qualities with Cullinans.

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