Openness is the factor that describes about freedom towards imagination,looking forward for trying and testing new things, have curiosity, persist open mind,persist liberal values etc in their personality and mind.
According to the question, uplifted scores are expected from Elena's questionnaires answers as she has openness in her personality because of traits like curiosity, creativeness, imagination oriented etc .
In the scenario in where it has been said that over time the Americans' expectations of the government have then generally increased. I'm not sure but I hope this is the right answer and would be of big help then.