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.
which information from the excerpt best supports the inference that achievement tests ignore imagination as an element of language ability?
○ tans mother would not be able to answer a question like the one described in the excerpt.
○ tans mother could think of several ways to answer a question like the one described in the excerpt.
○ tans mother did not allow her to take tests with questions like the one described in the excerpt
○ tans mother was disappointed that tan did poorly on tests with questions like the one described in the excerpt.

Explanation:

The key idea is that if there are "very few limitations as to what Tom could have been and what Mary might have thought of him" (implying creativity/imagination), but the tests have "correct" (rigid, non - imaginative) answers like the "most bland combinations of thoughts", then a person with an imaginative view (like Tan's mother who could think of multiple answers) shows the tests' lack of imagination - inclusion.

Answer:

Tan’s mother could think of several ways to answer a question like the one described in the excerpt.