Indeed, Val. I think the author needs to become a better critical thinker before mistaking such a question as a "critical thinker's dream." For one thing, the author describes this as "evaluating evidence," but where's the part where the reader is encouraged to say, "this passage presents bad evidence, because _________."

And this only scratches the surface of the real issues with standardized testing, which relate to how well they measure what they purport to measure, and how the results are misused to evaluate teachers (because, news flash, all students are not alike).