I would like to introduce you to my son, Wind-Wolf. He is probably what you would consider a typical Indian kid. He
was born and raised on the reservation. He has black hair,
dark brown eyes, olive complexion. And like so many
Indian children his age, he is shy and quiet in the
classroom. He is five years old, in kindergarten, and I can't
understand why you have already labeled him a "slow
learner."
-- Medicine Grizzlybear Lake, "An Indian Father's Plea"
Why does Lake reintroduce the teacher to Wind-Wolf in the beginning of "An
Indian Father's Plea"?
O A. To show that his son has been properly scolded for his
misbehavior in school and will no longer be a problem during
class
B. To show that he is frustrated by the teacher's bias against both his
son and American Indians in general
O C. To show that he feels the teacher has not taken the time to
recognize Wind-Wolf as an individual with a specific background
O D. To show that his son is a new student in the teacher's class and he
wants to properly introduce him so they start out on the right foot

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.