Skyler is selecting a fiction text. She feels like she has read stories about many different cultures in the United States, so she wants to choose a text that will expose her to modern life in a culture from a different part of the world. Based on this information, which text would be the best recommendation for Skyler? a novel about a girl who moves from the United States to Japan and struggles to adapt a novel about a girl who moves from Chicago to rural Iowa and struggles to adapt a novel about a girl from Dallas who visits her American Indian relatives on a reservation in Oklahoma a novel about the struggles of a young girl’s childhood while growing up in France during World War II

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.