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Amy Tan, Two Kinds

Amy Tan, Two Kinds

Read Two Kinds and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. As a child, the narrator is pressured by her mother to become a Chinese

Judy Garland.

Rosie the Riveter.

Shirley Temple.

Little Orphan Annie.

2. How does the mother get the idea to arrange for her daughter to have piano lessons?

The mother had played piano when she was a child.

She was inspired by the great jazz pianist Count Basie.

She sees a Chinese girl playing piano on TV.

Her sister’s daughter has become a successful child pianist.

3. The narrator’s cousin, Waverly Jong, becomes famous for

playing chess.

playing piano.

ballet.

learning English so quickly.

4. What happens when the daughter plays piano in the talent show?

She receives a scholarship for music school.

She plays badly.

The audience walks out.

She outperforms her cousin.

5. Who ends up with the daughter’s piano at the end of the story?

the daughter

the mother

Waverly Jong

It is sold to a recent Chinese immigrant.