TIMED Which question does this passage answer most effectively?
Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
In the sugar colonies, the wounds of slavery were never
far beneath the surface. The Africans who had worked in
sugar quickly left the plantations and tried to farm or
moved to nearby towns. As one planter said, it made no
sense to believe that "the Negro would become a
grateful and cheerful free laborer on the soil which had
been watered by his tears in slavery." But what could the
former slaves do? Every Indian who accepted the paltry
wages specified in the indenture contract lowered the
price an African could charge for his labor.
O Why did Indians come to work on the plantations?
O Why did Africans leave the plantations to farm
elsewhere?
O Why did the Indians accept low wages for work on
plantations?
O Why did indenture contracts include low wages for
Africans?

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.