Read the excerpts below from "two kinds" by amy tan and answer the question that follows. . i was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that i learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant hymns. . for the talent show, i was to play a piece called "pleading child" from schumann's scenes from childhood. it was a simple, moody piece that sounded more difficult than it was. i was supposed to memorize the whole thing, playing the repeat parts twice to make the piece sound longer. but i dawdled over it, playing a few bars and then cheating, looking up to see what notes followed. i never really listened to what i was playing. i daydreamed about being somewhere else, about being someone else. what does the narration in the excerpts reveal about jing-mei's character? the song is much too difficult for jing-mei, so she cannot concentrate no matter what she does. she thinks the talent show is a big joke and is not willing to work for it. she is trying her best, but she keeps getting distracted by her own imagination. she believes she cannot succeed even if she tries, so she doesn't bother to try.

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Select the correct answer. read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich: her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same. just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this—and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him—with his legs up." she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up. the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said: "what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancies of that kind, but we must forgive them. . " they all rose, said good-night, and went away. when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better; the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained—that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse. again minute followed minute and hour followed hour. everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible. based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life. b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him. c. she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful—everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to. reset next