Which best summarizes this passage? mrs. brandeis does well in business. she owns a general store. she is clever and carefully listens to the salesmen to be sure they are not cheating her. the dishonest salesmen do not try to trick her because they know that she always makes a duplicate sales slip. one day she buys a lot of battenberg patterns, and the town goes crazy over them. mrs. brandeis' friendly personality her to succeed in business. because she listens to the salesmen's troubles, they like her. one of the salesmen urges her to buy battenberg patterns and to complete and display one of them in the window. mrs. brandeis is not sure that this is a good idea, but she decides to do as the salesman suggests. as a result, she sells a lot of battenberg patterns. a storeowner named mrs. brandeis is unsure that the battenberg patterns will sell well. she thinks the cloth is ugly. sam kiser convinces her to give the patterns a try. soon the women of the town are buying patterns and buttons to make battenberg covers, doilies, bedspreads, blouses and curtains. mrs. brandeis becomes rich.

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.