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.