Why does waverly's mother allow her to compete in tournaments?
a. she wants waverly to develop her own, individual interests.
b. she believes that chess will develop invisible strength in waverly.
c. she does not want her daughter to give up without a fight.
d. she sees chess as a way to promote chinese culture in her daughter.

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination