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- 1. Multiple ChoiceDEFINITION: a young person who is exceptionally talented or intelligentreverieprodigyreproachambitious
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is NOT fitting theme for the story?PrideFriendshipBeing yourselfForgiveness
- 3. Multiple ChoiceCharacterize the narrator of the story:Kind, easy goingMusicianStubborn, cruel streak, self assertiveLoving, low selfesteem
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhat 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 ChoiceWhat 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 ChoiceWhat 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 ChoiceIdentify 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 ChoiceThe 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 ChoiceIdentify 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 ChoiceWhat is the setting of the story?China Town, California 1960'sNew York City, modern day
- 11. Multiple ChoiceDEFINITION: having a strong desire for successambitiousaccusationsassertreproach
- 12. Multiple ChoiceDEFINITION: belief that something will happenaccusationexpectationreproachprodigy
- 13. Multiple ChoiceSomething that is sure to happen and unavoidable.expectationinevitableambitiousreproach
- 14. Multiple ChoiceDEFINITION: saying that another has done something wrongreproachdiscordantaccusationexpectation
- 15. Multiple ChoiceDEFINITION: blame, criticism, disapprovalreproachexpectationaccusationdiscordant
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