Question

Read expert from “Mothers Tongue “

Answer 1

The correct answer is B: It shows an instance in which someone with little mastery of a language nonetheless wisely and correctly recognizes that she is being taken advantage of.

This is so because the author has already confessed that she used to interpret her mother's limitation with the English language as a sign of intellectual limitation, and this anecdote proves how wrong she had been about it. The author's mother, recognizing how she was not only disregarded but also taken advantage of by native speakers, had her daughter pretend to be her on the phone in order to be taken seriously. In other words, the author's mother had no problem in understanding the intricacies of many situations presented to her in English (such as the workings of the stock market), but her lack of mastery in language production was often wrongly perceived as lack of understanding.