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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Examine the following sentence from the narrative: “I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the right track.” What literary device is used in this example?
(a) Simile
(b) Jargon
(c) Metaphor
(d) Onomatopoeia

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

3. What “magic word” as in conjuring does Jing-Mei use to describe the effect of her having said hurtful things to her mother during their fight about piano practice?
(a) Alakazam
(b) Kapow
(c) Voila
(d) Abracadabra

4. 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 takes them home with her
(b) She sells them
(c) She gives them to her sister
(d) She gives them to her father

5. When Jing-Mei has a revelation while staring at herself in the bathroom mirror as a child, she says, “I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts willed with lots of” what?
(a) Don’ts
(b) Won’ts
(c) Can’ts
(d) Hates

Short Answer Questions

1. When Jing-Mei and her mother get into an argument about Jing-Mei beginning piano lessons, Jing-Mei’s mother exclaims, “If she had as much talent as she has temper, she would be” what?

2. What is the name of Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the story?

3. Who founded the Ripley’s Believe It or Not franchise?

4. What color does Jing-Mei say her mother knitted sweaters in, which were also “all the colors I hated”?

5. What does Jing-Mei say she mostly did do while she was practicing her music for the talent show?

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