Question

read the excerpt from \mother tongue.\
those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as \even though tom was ____, mary thought he was ____.\ and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, \even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.\ well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that.
how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt?
tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well.
tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content.
tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability
tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate

Explanation:

Tan uses her personal experience with a fill-in-the-blank test item and her mother’s perspective (seeing more possibilities than the "bland" correct answers) to show these tests don’t accurately measure language ability—she didn’t do well not due to poor skills, but because the tests restricted creative/contextual thinking.

Answer:

C. Tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability