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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the names of the families from the Joy Luck Club that come up to Jing-Mei’s mother and father after Jing-Mei’s performance at the talent show?
(a) The Yus, the Tsings, and the Lees
(b) The Woos, the Lees, and the Wilsons
(c) The Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs
(d) The Tsings, the Lees and the Hsus

3. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of “Two Kinds,” “My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. You could open” what?
(a) A clothing store
(b) A factory
(c) A hair salon
(d) A restaurant

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?
(a) Holy agony
(b) Bitter contempt
(c) Judicious rage
(d) Holy indignity

5. Jing-Mei describes sitting down nightly with her mother to examine stories of child prodigies when she was a child. The first of these stories is about a boy who knows all the state capitals and most of the European countries at what age?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 12
(d) 3

Short Answer Questions

1. How old does Jing-Mei say she was when her mother told her “Of course you can be prodigy too” in the beginning of the story?

2. What does Jing-Mei wear in her hair at the talent show?

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. Of what ethnicity is the little girl on The Ed Sullivan Show that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano?

5. The Magnuson Act was passed in the year that China became what?

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