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.

Read the sentence. the great wave was inexpensive to purchase, costing only about the same as a double of noodles. since lots of copies could be printed and still look good, it made loads of money. which best revises this sentence to create a more formal style and tone? *the great wave was as cheap as buying a double of noodles. since lots of copies could be made and still look great, people started making piles of money. *the great wave was inexpensive to purchase, costing about the same as a double of noodles. since mass quantities could be produced and still look exquisite, it became highly profitable to sell. *the great wave cost next to nothing, practically the same as a double of noodles. since mass quantities could be produced and still look awesome, it became highly profitable to sell. *the great wave was inexpensive to purchase, similar to buying a double of noodles. since lots of copies could be made that still looked amazing, those who sold it made tons of money.