Which sentences best summarize the day that Sarah meets Maggie in Sarah, Plain and Tall? Maggie gives Sarah a gift of chickens and plants for a garden. The two women talk about how they miss their homes and begin a new friendship.

When Maggie and her husband arrive, the family horses greet the new horses. Maggie gives Sarah chickens and Sarah plans to keep them as pets.

Maggie has two daughters that she named for flowers. While the men plow the fields, the two women set the table for dinner.

After Maggie introduces her family, her young children chase the chickens and dogs. Sarah and Maggie then help hitch up the horses.

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.