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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long does Jing-Mei say she practiced piano with Mr. Chong before she overheard her mother and Auntie Lindo bragging about their children?
(a) 1 year
(b) 2 years
(c) 5 months
(d) 4 weeks

2. After Jing-Mei’s performance at the talent show, she says, “We could have escaped during intermission.” What does she say “must have anchored my parents to their chairs”?
(a) Pride and some strange sense of honor
(b) A love for music
(c) A desire to not be shown up by their neighbors
(d) A need to punish me further

3. What word from the narrative means under a magical trance?
(a) Trilled
(b) Bewitched
(c) Elated
(d) Engulfed

4. How long ago has Jing-Mei’s mother died when she sends the tuner to recondition the piano at the end of the story?
(a) A year ago
(b) A few years ago
(c) A few months ago
(d) A week ago

5. Edvard Grieg was a composer and pianist from what country?
(a) England
(b) Germany
(c) France
(d) Norway

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jing-Mei describe Mr. Chong’s eyes as always looking when she began piano lessons with him?

2. What is the name of the Schumann piece that Jing-Mei is to play at the talent show?

3. What word from the story means coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited?

4. “Two Kinds” is a short story from Amy Tan’s book The Joy Luck Club. This collection of short stories revolves around the lives of Chinese immigrant women who form a club and play what game?

5. Jing-Mei soon learns after beginning her piano lessons with Mr. Chong that he is deaf. He compares himself to what composer, saying “We’re both listening only in our head”?

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