Rules of the Game - Waverly & The Voice From the Wall - Lena

Rules of the Game:

What was “the art of invisible strength” that Waverly’s mother taught her?

• It was a special strength that comes from angels.

• It was the strength that comes from lifting weights.

• It was a strategy for winning arguments and gaining respect from others.

• It was a way of never losing even one chess tournament.

Rules of the Game:

How did Waverly’s mother demonstrate the art of invisible strength?

• She gave Waverly a gift of salted plums precisely because she kept quiet

  and didn’t request them.

• She ignored Waverly and never praised her.

• She showed Waverly how muscular her body was getting.

• She remained silent for seven days straight.

Rules of the Game:

How did Waverly learn to play expert chess?

• She took classes through a kind of community center.

• In the beginning she taught herself and then she played with Lau Po.

• Her brother Winston taught her.

• Her mother taught her.

Rules of the Game:

What would Waverly’s mother say when she attended Waverly’s chess exhibition games

outdoors?

• “Is my daughter the chess master.”

• “Is funny game.”

• “Is luck.”

• “Chess is so silly.”

Rules of the Game:

Why did Waverly run away?

• She ran away because her mother was embarrassing her and showing off.

• She was tired of being made to play in chess tournaments.

• She had told her mother that the next time she didn’t get her own way, she would

  run away.

• She felt that her skills as a great chess player weren’t being appreciated

  properly.

Rules of the Game:

How did Waverly’s mother treat her when she returned home after running away?

• She was totally apologetic and gave Waverly anything she wanted.

• She talked with Waverly about solving her problems.

• She promised not to cause any more problems for Waverly.

• She treated her as though she didn’t exist.

Rules of the Game:

What was Waverly’s mother’s view of “rules”?

• She believed that people from foreign countries must learn the American

  “rules.”

• She believed that the rules were a way of tricking foreigners into making

  mistakes.

• She believed that rules were made to be broken.

• She believed that rules applied to grownups but not to children.

Rules of the Game:

At the end of the story, who is Waverly’s imaginary chess opponent?

• Lau Po

• Her brother Winston

• Her father

• Her mother

The Voice from the Wall:

What does the dead beggar say when he returns?

• I wish I had not gone away.

• The worst is on the other side.

• I have come back for revenge.

• I never was a good person before.

The Voice from the Wall:

How did the American immigration authorities categorize Lena’s mother?

• as a “displaced person.”

• as a troublesome foreigner

• as an Asian of unknown origin

• as a female Oriental