When she voted in the presidential election of 1872, Susan B. Anthony insisted that, as a U. S. citizen, she had the right to do so. How effective is Justice Ward Hunt in refuting her
claim? What claims of his own does he make, and what logical reasons and evidence does
he use to support them? Use your understanding of arguments and claims to identify and
evaluate the case Justice Hunt makes with his ruling. How is his argument similar to or
different from the argument made by Lillie Devereux Blake? Which argument, do you, as a
reader find more convincing and why? Support your writing with evidence from the text.

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.