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.
O 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.

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Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance

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