Read this excerpt from A Room of one's Own by Virginia Woolf:
[G]enius like Shakespeare's is not born among labouring,
uneducated, servile people How, then, could it have
been born among women whose work began, according to
Professor Trevelyan, almost before they were out of the
nursery, who were forced to it by their parents and held to
it by all the power of law and custom? Yet genius of a sort
must have existed among women as it must have existed
among the working classes,
Which sentence best states the idea that this excerpt helps to develop?

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.