Read the passage from "Two Kinds.”And then I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me—because I had never seen that face before. I looked at my reflection, blinking so I could see more clearly. The girl staring back at me was angry, powerful. This girl and I were the same. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won'ts. I won't let her change me, I promised myself. I won't be what I'm not.
Answer
A
Extrinsic motivation: The narrator wants to become a prodigy to please her mother.
B
Extrinsic motivation: The narrator wants to adapt her behavior to please the girl in the mirror.
C
Intrinsic motivation: The narrator refuses to be angry like the girl in the mirror.
D
Intrinsic motivation: The narrator refuses to change her true nature to please someone else.
Explanation
The narrator’s thoughts—“I won’t let her change me” and “I won’t be what I’m not”—show that she is asserting her own identity rather than trying to earn someone else’s approval. That is intrinsic motivation: her choice comes from her own sense of who she is. Choice D correctly describes her refusal to change her true nature to please someone else.
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