Read the excerpt from "a history of voting rights.” the attitudes and belief systems of the day had much to do with the limitation of voting rights. women were considered ill-suited to decide upon matters of politics, as they traditionally were responsible for taking care of the home. based on this excerpt, what is one reason that women were denied voting rights in the early 1800s? society believed they would outnumber the number of men who voted. society believed they were not competent enough to understand certain issues. society believed they were not qualified to run for public office. society believed they would abandon their domestic responsibilities.

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.