Why did henry’s father send him to rainer rather than a chinese school?
(this is from the novel hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet)
this is a short answer question, not just answering a numbered question.
these are some questions to you out, but you do not need to answer them:
what was the typical educational path for chinese-americans at that time?
what happened in september of 1941?
what had been the plan for henry's education before that time?
why was his father so upset about the japanese even before pearl harbor?
how close was the fighting to where henry might have gone to school in china?

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.