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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Jing-Mei’s mother enrolls her in piano lessons, Jing-Mei says, “I can’t play the piano. And even if I could, I wouldn’t” what?
(a) Go on TV if you paid me a million dollars
(b) Be able to play it well enough for your expectations
(c) Take lessons from Mr. Chong
(d) Play for you

2. What does Jing-Mei say she put the sweaters her mother knitted in after she died in the end of the story?
(a) A garbage bag
(b) Moth-proof boxes
(c) An air-tight bag
(d) A wooden chest

3. When was the Chinese Exclusion Act signed into law?
(a) 1882
(b) 1948
(c) 1862
(d) 1915

4. Which of the following is a major theme throughout “Two Kinds”?
(a) Political corruption
(b) Father-daughter relationships
(c) Sister-brother rivalry
(d) Mother-daughter relationships

5. At the talent show where Jing-Mei makes her piano debut, she describes an eleven-year-old boy who won first prize for what performance?
(a) A piano solo
(b) A comedic monologue
(c) A mime act
(d) A violin solo

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days have passed since Jing-Mei and her mother watched The Ed Sullivan Show when Jing-Mei’s mother tells her that she will be taking piano lessons?

2. The little girl that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show is said to have what kind of haircut?

3. What literary term refers to a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, idea, setting, or object?

4. What is Auntie Lindo’s last name in the story?

5. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story that she had never asked her mother about her hope, “And that even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most”. What is the question that so frightened Jing-Mei?

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