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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Auntie Lindo tells Jing-Mei’s mother that all day long she has no time to do anything but what, when she is bragging about her daughter?
(a) Dust off her trophies
(b) Clean her daughter’s pageant dresses
(c) Vacuum her daughter’s messes up
(d) Polish her daughter’s beauty crowns
2. What is the nickname that Auntie Lindo’s daughter is known by in the area where Jing-Mei grows up?
(a) Chinatown’s Littlest “Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Mah-jongg Champion
(b) Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Chess Champion
(c) Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Checkers Champion
(d) Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Swimming Star
3. What word does Jing-Mei use in describing Mr. Chong’s silent instrumental compositions with a vague and dreamy character?
(a) Staccato
(b) Reverie
(c) Arpeggio
(d) Trill
4. How does Jing-Mei describe her school achievements in “Two Kinds”?
(a) I flunked every class twice
(b) I got straight A’s
(c) I didn’t get straight A’s
(d) I skipped two grades
5. How does Jing-Mei say she felt every time she saw the piano in her parents’ living room at the end of the story?
(a) Angry
(b) Ashamed
(c) Proud
(d) Sad
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the only person applauding when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsy at the talent show?
2. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong’s mother as having a particular smell about her of what?
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 says in the end of the story of her mother that she had “never found a way to ask her why she had hoped for something so large that” what “was inevitable”?
5. What musical term from the story refers to a composition for one or two instruments, typically comprised of three or four movements in contrasting forms and keys?
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