Read the excerpt below from the short story “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan and answer the question that follows. On a cold spring afternoon, while walking home from school, I detoured through the playground at the end of our alley. I saw a group of old men, two seated across a folding table playing a game of chess, others smoking pipes, eating peanuts, and watching. I ran home and grabbed Vincent’s chess set, which was bound in a cardboard box with rubber bands. I also carefully selected two prized rolls of Life Savers. I came back to the park and approached a man who was observing the game. “Want to play?” I asked him. His face widened with surprise and he grinned as he looked at the box under my arm. “Little sister, been a long time since I play with dolls,” he said, smiling benevolently. I quickly put the box down next to him on the bench and displayed my retort. What is the primary conflict in the excerpt? internal: Meimei vs. Lau Po external: Meimei vs. Lindo external: Meimei vs. Lau Po internal: Meimei vs. Lindo

In this paragraph Meimei is excited to see a congregation of people sharing their love for chess, so she runs home to get a chess set to join and practice with them as well. The conflict in this scene happens when the man, who will soon be introduced as Lau Po, makes an assumption based on Meimei's gender. He surmises that because Meimei is a girl, she must be in the park to play with dolls, and this causes Meimei to be offended as she wants to be seen as a serious chess player.