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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Jing-Mei sits down to begin her piano solo at the talent show, she envisions whom rushing up to introduce her to everyone on TV?
(a) Johnny Carson
(b) Bob Newhart
(c) Ed Sullivan
(d) James Dean

2. What does Jing-Mei respond to her mother on the phone when her mother offers her the piano for her birthday and says, “You could been genius if you wanted to”?
(a) Yes, I know
(b) I love you
(c) No I couldn’t
(d) I wish I’d known then

3. 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) A wooden chest
(c) An air-tight bag
(d) Moth-proof boxes

4. What is the name of Jing-Mei’s mother in “Two Kinds”?
(a) An-Mei Hsu
(b) Lindo Jong
(c) Suyuan Woo
(d) Wu-Tsing Hsu

5. What word from the story mean to find fault in, blame, or censure?
(a) Adulterate
(b) Reproach
(c) Tolerate
(d) Confiscate

Short Answer Questions

1. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kind” is related in what tense?

2. What musical term, taught by Mr. Chong to Jing-Mei in their lessons, means pertaining to the highest part in harmonized music?

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

4. Of her mother’s ambitions and her own as a child, Jing-Mei says, “I was like the Christ child lifted out of the straw manger, crying with” what?

5. What is the nickname that Auntie Lindo’s daughter is known by in the area where Jing-Mei grows up?

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