read the passage from wo kinds.\
three days after watching the ed sullivan show, my mother told me what my schedule would be for piano lessons and piano practice. she had talked to mr. chong, who lived on the first floor of our apartment building. mr. chong was a retired piano teacher and my mother had traded housecleaning services for weekly lessons and a piano for me to practice on every day, two hours a day, from four until six.
when my mother told me this, i felt as though i had been sent to hell. i whined and then kicked my foot a little when i couldnt stand it anymore.
\why dont you like me the way i am? im not a genius! i cant play the piano. and even if i could, i wouldnt go on tv if you paid me a million dollars?\ i cried.
my mother slapped me. \who ask you be genius?\ she
which statement best explains the conflict revealed in the passage?
the conflict is internal within the narrator, who has to choose between playing music and going on television.
the conflict is internal within the narrator’s mother, who cannot decide whether her daughter is talented or not.
the conflict is external and takes place between the narrator and her mother over whether the narrator will learn to play piano.
the conflict is external and takes place between the narrator’s mother and mr. chong over the payment for the narrator’s piano lessons.

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read the passage from 	wo kinds.\
three days after watching the ed sullivan show, my mother told me what my schedule would be for piano lessons and piano practice. she had talked to mr. chong, who lived on the first floor of our apartment building. mr. chong was a retired piano teacher and my mother had traded housecleaning services for weekly lessons and a piano for me to practice on every day, two hours a day, from four until six.
when my mother told me this, i felt as though i had been sent to hell. i whined and then kicked my foot a little when i couldnt stand it anymore.
\why dont you like me the way i am? im not a genius! i cant play the piano. and even if i could, i wouldnt go on tv if you paid me a million dollars?\ i cried.
my mother slapped me. \who ask you be genius?\ she
which statement best explains the conflict revealed in the passage?
the conflict is internal within the narrator, who has to choose between playing music and going on television.
the conflict is internal within the narrator’s mother, who cannot decide whether her daughter is talented or not.
the conflict is external and takes place between the narrator and her mother over whether the narrator will learn to play piano.
the conflict is external and takes place between the narrator’s mother and mr. chong over the payment for the narrator’s piano lessons.

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# Brief Explanations:
1. Analyze Option 1: The narrator's conflict isn't about choosing between music and TV; she resists piano lessons, so this is incorrect.
2. Analyze Option 2: The conflict isn't internal in the mother—she's set on the piano lessons, so this is incorrect.
3. Analyze Option 3: The narrator (I) resists learning piano, and the mother insists (schedules lessons, slaps when she cries), so it's an external conflict between them over piano learning. This matches.
4. Analyze Option 4: The mother traded housecleaning for lessons, so no conflict over payment with Mr. Chong. This is incorrect.

# Answer:
C. The conflict is external and takes place between the narrator and her mother over whether the narrator will learn to play piano.

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