ACT Question of the Day

It’s a little tough to share questions from the reading section since there’s a whole passage to read, but I think this’ll work. I took the following paragraph from one of the passages. Read it, and then try the question:

“I also knew my mother was unhappy in Paterson, New Jersey, but my father had a good job at the blue jeans factory in Passaic and soon, he kept assuring us, we would be moving to our own house there. I had learned to listen to my parents’ dreams, which were spoken in Spanish, as fairy tales, like the stories about life in Puerto Rico before I was born. I had been to the island once as a little girl. We had not been back there since then, though my parents talked constantly about buying a house on the beach someday, retiring on the island—that was a common topic among the residents of El Building. As for me, I was going to go to college and become a teacher.”

The narrator most nearly portrays her parents’ dreams as:

F. close to being realized because of her father’s good job.
G. somewhat uncommon among the other residents of the family’s building.
H. ones she has heard about many times but that seem far off and remote to her.
J. ones she shares with her parents and longs to fulfill.

Bonus question: Why doesn’t the ACT use the letter “I” as one of the choices?