MAMA. You making something inside me cry, son. Some awful pain inside me. WALTER. Don't cry, Mama. Understand. That white man is going to walk in that door able to write checks for more money than we ever had. It's important to him and I'm going to help him . . . I'm going to put on the show, Mama. Which themes does the excerpt most clearly convey?
 A. Money is not the key to the American Dream; never do demeaning things to get what you want.
B. To conform to society, you must keep your individuality; the family must be kept together, no matter what.
C. Sometimes children never learn their lesson; life can often be painful and hard to bear.
 D. One should never sacrifice one's dignity; to meet society's expectations, one must give up one's individuality.

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.