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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from the story means coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited?
(a) Fanatical
(b) Depreciatory
(c) Impertinent
(d) Nonchalant

2. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kind” is related in what tense?
(a) Future-possessive tense
(b) Present tense
(c) Past tense
(d) Future tense

3. What does Jing-Mei do with the Chinese silk dresses she finds when sorting through her mother’s things at the end of the story?
(a) She gives them to her sister
(b) She gives them to her father
(c) She takes them home with her
(d) She sells them

4. At what time does Jing-Mei’s mother insist that Jing-Mei begin her piano practice following the talent show fiasco?
(a) 6
(b) 3
(c) 7
(d) 4

5. Of her first lessons with Mr. Chong, Jing-Mei says, “I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord and then I just played some nonsense that sounded like” what?
(a) A chorus of birds singing in the treetops
(b) A solitary violin
(c) A cat running up and down on top of garbage cans
(d) A crash of bricks against a tin rooftop

Short Answer 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?

2. Jing-Mei says that during her childhood, the tests her mother gave her “got harder—multiplying numbers in my head, finding” what card in a deck of cards?

3. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of the story that at first her mother thought she could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. “We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were” what?

4. Jing-Mei’s mother tells her when Jing-Mei resists taking piano lessons, “Who ask you be genius? Only ask you be” what?

5. What composition does the piano prodigy play by Edvard Grieg on The Ed Sullivan Show as Jing-Mei and her mother watch?

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