PLEASE ACTUALLY HELP Which quotation from the essay helps to create the humorous
tone in "Here is New York"?

"Not many among them have ever spent a drowsy
afternoon in the great rustling oaken silence of the
O reading room of the Public Library, with the book
elevator (like an old water wheel) spewing out books
onto the trays."

"...it makes no difference: each embraces New York
with the intense excitement of first love, each
absorbs New York with the fresh yes of an
adventurer,

"He is desk-bound, and has never, idly roaming in
the gloaming, stumbled suddenly on Belvedere
Tower in the Puk, see the ramparts rise sheer from
the water of the pond,..."

"The commuter is the queerest bird of all. The
suburb he inhabits has no essential vitality of its own
and is a mere roost where he comes at day's end to
go to sleep."

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.