The correct answers to your question are the options below:
- “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.”
- “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.”
Although you have not shown the book you are referring to, we can see from the context of your question that you are referring to “Two Kinds” written by Amy Tan.
In this book:
- we meet Jing-mei, a Chinese-American girl who lives under heavy pressure from her mother, who wants her to be a great prodigy.
- We can reflect on the relationship between mothers and daughters of different nationalities and the pressure to fulfill the parents' wishes, even when this doesn't seem possible.
In summary, reading the book and the excerpts presented above, allows us to reach the conclusion that Jing-mei's mother has great hope that her daughter will become a child prodigy in some area and show how the mother was successful in raise such a talented child.
In the link below you can find more information about "Two Kinds" and in the attached image you can find the excerpt from the book that is related to your question.
https://brainly.com/question/2108738?referrer=searchResults
