Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention". But Laura's inventing days were over just as Yoyo's were starting up with her school-wide success. Rather than the rolling suitcase everyone else in the family remembers, Yoyo thinks of the speech her mother wrote as her last invention. It was as if, after that, her mother had passed on to Yoyo her pencil and pad and said, "Okay, Cuquita, here's the buck. You give it a shot." Which context clue provides the best hint for the meaning of the underlined idiom in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention". But Laura's inventing days were over just as Yoyo's were starting up with her school-wide success. Rather than the rolling suitcase everyone else in the family remembers, Yoyo thinks of the speech her mother wrote as her last invention. It was as if, after that, her mother had passed on to Yoyo her pencil and pad and said, "Okay, Cuquita, here's the buck. You give it a shot."

Which context clue provides the best hint for the meaning of the underlined idiom in this excerpt?

A. but Laura’s invents days were over  

B. the rolling suitcase everyone else in the family remembers  

C. Yoyo thinks of the speech her mother wrote as her last invention

D. after that her mother had passed on to Yoyo her pencil and pad

D. After that, her mother had passed on to yoyo her pencil and pad.

Explanation:

The context clue that provides the best hint for the meaning of the underlined idiom in this excerpt is option D "After that, her mother had passed on to yoyo her pencil and pad."

Justice Taney in this excerpt makes the claim that Scott is not a Missouri citizen (C). We can come up to this conclusion because in the passage the Justice Taney  is always wondering if Scott should be consider as an American Citizen when it was allowed for other state not Missouri, so his thought is, in basic words, why should he accept another state decision when he never agreed with that. With this reasoning we can definetly see that the Justice does not accept Scott as a citizen of the state.