This american government—what is it but a tradition . . it is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves; and, if ever they should use it in earnest as a real one against each other, it will surely split. in this excerpt from “civil disobedience” by henry david thoreau, why does thoreau compare the american government to a wooden gun? a)to indicate that it can harm others easily b)to indicate that it is a part of nature c)to indicate that it has only the appearance of power d)to indicate that it is likely to burn to the ground

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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.