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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the film Bright Eyes bring Shirley Temple international fame?
(a) 1951
(b) 1959
(c) 1934
(d) 1948

2. How many days have passed since Jing-Mei and her mother watched The Ed Sullivan Show when Jing-Mei’s mother tells her that she will be taking piano lessons?
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 3
(d) 6

3. Jing-Mei describes the girl playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show as taking a fancy sweep of a curtsy so that the fluffy skirt of her “dress cascaded slowly to the floor like the petals of” what?
(a) A large orchid
(b) A giant rose
(c) A large carnation
(d) A giant daisy

4. What is Jing-Mei’s last name in the story?
(a) Woo
(b) Chong
(c) Hsu
(d) Jong

5. When Jing-Mei was helping her father get things in order after Jing-Mei’s mother died, she says she found “some old Chinese silk dresses, the kind with” what?
(a) Gathers in the sleeves
(b) Hand-sewn little pockets
(c) Little slits up the sides
(d) Golden silk thread

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Auntie Lindo’s husband’s name?

3. How does Jing-Mei described her family’s kitchen table where she would sit after dinner with her mother during her childhood?

4. 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?

5. What musical term from the story refers to a group of notes taken in ascending or descending order within the compass of one octave?

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