Read the excerpt below from the short story “rules of the game” by amy tan and answer the question that follows.
in my head, i saw a chessboard with sixty-four black and white squares. opposite me was my opponent, two angry black slits. she wore a triumphant smile. “strongest wind cannot be seen,” she said.
her black men advanced across the plane, slowly marching to each successive level as a single unit. my white pieces screamed as they scurried and fell off the board one by one. as her men drew closer to my edge, i felt myself growing light. i rose up into the air and flew out the window. higher and higher, above the alley, over the tops of tiled roofs, where i was gathered up by the wind and pushed up toward the night sky until everything below me disappeared and i was alone.
i closed my eyes and pondered my next move.
who is the opponent in the narrator’s imaginary chess game?
meimei jong
winston jong
lau po
lindo jong