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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jing-Mei say she felt when her time to perform her piano solo at the talent show came?
(a) I was scared, but hopeful
(b) I was worried
(c) I was terrified
(d) I was very confident

2. What does the piano symbolize in “Two Kinds”?
(a) Jing-Mei’s longing for cultural resonance
(b) Jing-Mei’s mother’s ambitions for her
(c) Jing-Mei’s love for her father
(d) Jing-Mei’s belief in a higher spiritual being

3. What musical term from the story refers to a group of notes taken in ascending or descending order within the compass of one octave?
(a) Sonata
(b) Treble
(c) Bass
(d) Scale

4. When did the Japanese invasion of China take place, leading Jing-Mei’s mother to flee China?
(a) 1937
(b) 1943
(c) 1911
(d) 1929

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?
(a) Why she wanted to hurt me
(b) Why she had given up hope
(c) Why she had believed in me
(d) Why she had left her children behind

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Shirley Temple born?

2. What illness did Jing-Mei’s mother contract while trying to flee China?

3. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons with him as “very strange, always tapping his fingers to the silent music of” what?

4. What college does Jing-Mei say she didn’t get into, causing more disappointment for her mother?

5. How many sons does Auntie Lindo have in the story?

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