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Which two key details from “The Most Famous Woman in America” best support the idea that Barton is admired for her leadership skills?

““'I know she refused a carpet someone offered for her tent. She said soldiers were sleeping on the ground.'”
“Her plan had been adopted. Aid stations were now set up near every battlefield.”
“‘She was a real manager,’ said Joe. ‘In about three minutes she had things moving.’”
“‘She had a hard time getting permission,’ said another. ‘General after general refused.’”

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.