Multiple choice

Directions: Read the following information carefully and answer the question given below.

In an experiment, two to three year old children and their kindergarten teachers made paintings together using brushes, watercolors, and other tools. Each child-teacher pair used a brush that was substantially different from those used by the other child-teacher pairs, and each teacher repeated the word “brushes” each time her ward used it. However, when the children were called upon to point to all of the brushes among a group of tools that included several brushes, each child identified only the brushes that she had used.

Which one of the following can be properly inferred from the passage above?

  1. The children did not understand the function of brushes.

  2. No two children applied the word “brushes” to the same object.

  3. The children knew that all brushes generally have a similar shape.

  4. Each child could correctly identify only the tools that she had used.

  5. None of these
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Each child used a different brush, and each selected only the brush she had used, when called to point to all the brushes. So, no two could have identified the same brush.

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