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- 1. Multiple-choice2 minutes1 ptDEFINITION: a young person who is exceptionally talented or intelligentreverieprodigyreproachambitious
- 2. Multiple-choice2 minutes1 ptWhich of the following is NOT fitting theme for the story?PrideFriendshipBeing yourselfForgiveness
- 3. Multiple-choice2 minutes1 ptCharacterize the narrator of the story:Kind, easy goingMusicianStubborn, cruel streak, self assertiveLoving, low selfesteem
- 4. Multiple-choice2 minutes1 ptWhat is the irony in the story?The mother had two dead twin children, and the narrator wished she was dead tooThe narrator ended up getting the piano as a gift in the end, after her mother diedThe narrator played poorly at the recital, and her mother still made her practice pianoThe narrator only embarrasses herself when she does bad at the recital, her mother doesn't care
- 5. Multiple-choice2 minutes1 ptWhat is the significance of the title?The mother tells her daughter, there are two kinds of daughters ones that are obedient and ones that do what they wantThere are two kinds of people, people that are good at music and those that are notThere were two different songs the narrator could playThe narrator feels two ways about her mother, hate and love
- 6. Multiple-choice2 minutes1 ptWhat best defines the conflict in the story?Man vs. Society: Narrator vs. Audience: Everyone in the audience thinks the narrator performed badlyMan vs. Supernatural: The narrator vs. her piano: The piano is haunted and made her play terribly at the recitalMan vs. Man: Narrator vs. her cousin Waverly: The narrator hates her perfect cousinMan vs. Man: Mother vs. Daughter: The mother wants her daughter to be something the daughter is not
- 7. Multiple-choice2 minutes1 ptIdentify the literary element in the following passage "And now I realized how many people were in the audience- the whole world, it seemed"PersonficationMetaphorSimileHyperbole
- 8. Multiple-choice2 minutes1 ptThe mother’s schemes for promoting her daughter’s career as a “prodigy” are best described asAppropriate and well-plannedInsensitive and unrealisticLighthearted and joyousSensitive and warm
- 9. Multiple-choice2 minutes1 ptIdentify the literary element in the following passage: "I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the right track"SimileMetaphorPersonificationHyperbole
- 10. Multiple-choice1 minute1 ptWhat is the setting of the story?China Town, California 1960'sNew York City, modern day
- 11. Multiple-choice2 minutes1 ptDEFINITION: having a strong desire for successambitiousaccusationsassertreproach
- 12. Multiple-choice30 seconds1 ptDEFINITION: belief that something will happenaccusationexpectationreproachprodigy
- 13. Multiple-choice30 seconds1 ptSomething that is sure to happen and unavoidable.expectationinevitableambitiousreproach
- 14. Multiple-choice2 minutes1 ptDEFINITION: saying that another has done something wrongreproachdiscordantaccusationexpectation
- 15. Multiple-choice2 minutes1 ptDEFINITION: blame, criticism, disapprovalreproachexpectationaccusationdiscordant
