According to the research on test anxiety and reading comprehension, students who are high in test ...

According to the research on test anxiety and reading comprehension, students who are high in test anxiety tend to
 
  a. report having above-average study skills.
  b. be similar to other students in making correct inferences from textbook material.
  c. perform poorly on multiple-choice tests that assess reading comprehension.
  d. spend less time studying their textbooks.

Question 2

Chapter 9 discussed a linguistics program called latent semantic analysis (LSA), which evaluates essays. According to this discussion, the LSA program
 
  a. is a direct application of Chomsky's linguistic theory.
  b. is especially skilled at detecting creative answers to an essay question.
  c. searches to see if the student's essay is semantically similar to the material that the student had read.
  d. grades the essays according to their similarity to a well-established script.