Question 1 Part A

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

Nothing matters more than hard work.

Modern urban life isolates people.

The children of immigrants often feel torn between two cultures.

Young people are naturally carefree and unafraid of taking risks.

Question 2
Part B

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

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

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

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

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

If your job was precarious,would you look for a new one? explain.

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive

Samuel johnson and oliver goldsmith had which of these in common? select all that apply. sensibility difficult poetic diction life of poverty distrust of parliament whig party leanings admiration of swift and pope