Read the following passage: "You're not here to read books, you're here to learn!" The
Childwrangler's voice screeched as we kept our picks
moving rhythmically against the school walls. We had all
heard about a time, back in the dark ages, when children
read books at school. They say school was even a building
above ground. But that was obviously dangerous. How
could society thrive if the children sat around reading all
day? When would they have time to learn about veins of
coal, support structures, processing fuel, and all that stuff?
School was important.

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.

Which statement about this passage best explains that the culture is patriarchal?

Where is grendel? where does he go? what makes him go? will he return? what will he be when he returns? what do his origins and destinations have to do with his character?