Two Kinds Review

Choose the word that best completes the sentence.

She said it was just a joke and not a _____.

• reproach

• squabbling

• discordant

Choose the word that best completes the sentence.

Your schedule is _____ with mine.

• reproach

• squabbling

• discordant

Choose the word that best completes the sentence.

Sally was _____ that she did not make the basketball team.

• squabbling

• indignity

• devastated

In the beginning of the story, how does the narrator (daughter) feel about the idea of becoming a prodigy?

• She feels excited, like her mother does.

• She does not want to be a famous prodigy.

• She is scared of becoming too famous too quickly.

Why did the mother want her daughter to become a prodigy?

• She wanted to have a lot of money.

• She lost everything in China and idealized American prodigies.

• She wanted to play piano, but did not know how, so she forced her daughter to do it.

What happened after the mother saw a child who looked like her daughter on The Ed Sullivan Show?

• She wished she was back in China.

• She decided that her daughter would never be as good as that girl, so she dropped the idea of her becoming a prodigy.

• She immediately signed up her daughter for piano lessons with a neighbor.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows.

"So she surprised me. A few years ago, she offered to give me the piano, for my thirtieth birthday. I had not played in all those years. I saw the offer as a sign of forgiveness, a tremendous burden removed." 

What burden had the narrator (daughter) been facing?

• She never had a conversation with her mother about awful things she said to her and never understood why her mother stopped believing in her.

• She never became a famous musician.

• She never became a famous musician.

Read the dialogue between the narrator (daughter) and mother, and then answer the question that follows:

“Well, I probably can’t play anymore,” I said. “It’s been years.”

“You pick up fast,” said my mother, as if she knew this was certain. “You have natural talent. You could been genius if you want to.” 

How is this different from the conversations they had when the narrator was a child?

• The mother spoke more softly and kindly. The narrator realized that her mother always only wanted her to be her best.

• The narrator was happy that her mother was no longer able to tell her what to do.

• The narrator was more angry and thought her mother was lying to her because she had never believed in her while she was growing up.

What is an antonym for the word reproach?

• criticize

• praise

• anger

Which is a list of only proper nouns?

• dad, home, garage

• Douglas, New Jersey, his

• Denver, Vincent, Statue of Liberty