Please help quickly I don't have all day Part A

What is a key theme of "Rules of the Game"?

Young people are naturally carefree and unafraid of taking risks.

Modern urban life isolates people.

The children of immigrants often feel torn between two cultures.

Nothing matters more than hard work.
Question 2
Part B

What is one way that Amy Tan develops the theme identified in Part A?

She describes how Waverly's superior chess skills require her brothers to do her share of the household chores.

She sets the story in Chinatown, a place where Chinese and American cultures come into contact with each other.

She includes details about how, at the Christmas party, one girl got a coloring book while another received a bottle of lavender water.

She shows Waverly winning a trophy in her very first chess tournament.


Read this excerpt from "Rules of the Game:"

They were already lining up the chess pieces and reading from the dog-eared instruction book.

How does the use of the word dog-eared affect the meaning of the text?

It shows that no one is careful with the instruction book.

It implies that the instruction book is missing some pages.

It shows that the chess set is a very decent present.

It emphasizes the fact that the chess set is old and well used.


Soon I no longer lost any games or Life Savers, but I lost my adversaries. Winston and Vincent decided they were more interested in roaming the streets after school in their Hopalong Cassidy cowboy hats.

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from "Rules of the Game"?

Once Waverly began beating her brothers at chess, they wouldn't play with her anymore.

Waverly's brothers had no interest in chess, so she started playing cowboys with them.

Waverly's brothers refused to play chess with her because they thought girls shouldn't play chess.

When Waverly found out her brothers were stealing her Life Savers, she told her mom, who made them stop.

For the first one, Its 'The Children of immigrants often feel torn between cultures', part B is 'She sets the story in China Town'. Just took the test ^^

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in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.