Question

Read the passage from "Two Kinds.”

Every night after dinner, my mother and I would sit at the Formica kitchen table. She would present new tests, taking her examples from stories of amazing children she had read in Ripley's Believe It or Not, or Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest, and a dozen other magazines she kept in a pile in our bathroom. My mother got these magazines from people whose houses she cleaned. And since she cleaned many houses each week, we had a great assortment. She would look through them all, searching for stories about remarkable children.

The first night she brought out a story about a three-year-old boy who knew the capitals of all the states and even most of the European countries. A teacher was quoted as saying the little boy could also pronounce the names of the foreign cities correctly.

"What's the capital of Finland?” my mother asked me, looking at the magazine story.

What evidence supports the conclusion that the narrator’s mother wants her to excel? Select three options.

“Every night after dinner, my mother and I would sit at the Formica kitchen table.”
“She would present new tests, taking her examples from stories of amazing children she had read in Ripley's Believe It or Not, or Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest, and a dozen other magazines she kept in a pile in our bathroom.”
“My mother got these magazines from people whose houses she cleaned. And since she cleaned many houses each week, we had a great assortment.”
“She would look through them all, searching for stories about remarkable children.”
“The first night she brought out a story about a three-year-old boy who knew the capitals of all the states and even most of the European countries. . . . ‘What’s the capital of Finland?’ my mother asked me, looking at the magazine story.”
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Answer 1

b) “She would present new tests, taking her examples from stories of amazing children she had read in Ripley's Believe It or Not, or Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest, and a dozen other magazines she kept in a pile in our bathroom.”

d) “She would look through them all, searching for stories about remarkable children.”

e) “The first night she brought out a story about a three-year-old boy who knew the capitals of all the states and even most of the European countries. . .. ‘What’s the capital of Finland?’ my mother asked me, looking at the magazine story.”

Step-by-step explanation:

Jing-Mei is a Chinese American child whose mother wants her to be a genius. We might ponder the moms and daughters of various ethnicities and the pressure to meet their parents' desires, even when it is impossible. Reading the book and the extracts above leads us to conclude that Jing-mother Mei's hopes her daughter will become a child prodigy and shows how she raised a brilliant youngster.