Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of the narrative. near the end of "goodbye to all that,” joan didion mentions that she got married. she describes the decision as “a very good thing to do but badly timed.” which evidence from the text emphasizes the fact that her husband understands her and her? he advises her on how to build her writing career. he takes her to a doctor. he suggests they leave new york. he convinces her that they should have a baby.

Review the previous excerpt from barbra jordan’s speech. answer the following 3 questions in the space below.

Who might be the main characters in a world parents type of creation story? a. a turtle and a raven b. a higher power and a human c. the sky and the earth d. the spirits of humans

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.