Question
Read the passage from Amy Tan's "Rules of the Game."
One day, after we left a shop I said under my breath, "I wish you wouldn’t do that, telling everybody I’m your daughter.” My mother stopped walking. Crowds of people with heavy bags pushed past us on the sidewalk, bumping into first one shoulder, then another.
"Aiii-ya. So shame be with mother?” She grasped my hand even tighter as she glared at me.
I looked down. "It’s not that, it’s just so obvious. It’s just so embarrassing.”
"Embarrass you be my daughter?” Her voice was cracking with anger.
"That’s not what I meant. That’s not what I said.”
"What you say?”
I knew it was a mistake to say anything more, but I heard my voice speaking, "Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don’t you learn to play chess?”
My mother’s eyes turned into dangerous black slits. She had no words for me, just sharp silence.
I felt the wind rushing around my hot ears. I jerked my hand out of my mother’s tight grasp and spun around, knocking into an old woman. Her bag of groceries spilled to the ground.
"Aii-ya! Stupid girl!” my mother and the woman cried. Oranges and tin cans careened down the sidewalk. As my mother stooped to help the old woman pick up the escaping food, I took off.
What conflict occurs in the passage?
A: an internal conflict within the mother, who wants her daughter to grow up but does not want to let her go
B: an internal conflict within the daughter, who wants to be a grand master but does not want anyone to know about it
C: an external conflict between the mother, who wants to show off her famous daughter, and the daughter, who feels used
D: an external conflict between the mother and the neighborhood over the social pressure on the mother to be successful
One day, after we left a shop I said under my breath, "I wish you wouldn’t do that, telling everybody I’m your daughter.” My mother stopped walking. Crowds of people with heavy bags pushed past us on the sidewalk, bumping into first one shoulder, then another.
"Aiii-ya. So shame be with mother?” She grasped my hand even tighter as she glared at me.
I looked down. "It’s not that, it’s just so obvious. It’s just so embarrassing.”
"Embarrass you be my daughter?” Her voice was cracking with anger.
"That’s not what I meant. That’s not what I said.”
"What you say?”
I knew it was a mistake to say anything more, but I heard my voice speaking, "Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don’t you learn to play chess?”
My mother’s eyes turned into dangerous black slits. She had no words for me, just sharp silence.
I felt the wind rushing around my hot ears. I jerked my hand out of my mother’s tight grasp and spun around, knocking into an old woman. Her bag of groceries spilled to the ground.
"Aii-ya! Stupid girl!” my mother and the woman cried. Oranges and tin cans careened down the sidewalk. As my mother stooped to help the old woman pick up the escaping food, I took off.
What conflict occurs in the passage?
A: an internal conflict within the mother, who wants her daughter to grow up but does not want to let her go
B: an internal conflict within the daughter, who wants to be a grand master but does not want anyone to know about it
C: an external conflict between the mother, who wants to show off her famous daughter, and the daughter, who feels used
D: an external conflict between the mother and the neighborhood over the social pressure on the mother to be successful
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The correct answer is **C: an external conflict between the mother, who wants to show off her famous daughter, and the daughter, who feels used**.
In the passage, the daughter expresses her embarrassment about being identified as her mother's daughter, particularly in the context of the mother's pride and desire to showcase her. This highlights the conflict between the mother's intentions and the daughter's feelings of embarrassment and frustration.
In the passage, the daughter expresses her embarrassment about being identified as her mother's daughter, particularly in the context of the mother's pride and desire to showcase her. This highlights the conflict between the mother's intentions and the daughter's feelings of embarrassment and frustration.
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