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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) Clean her daughter’s pageant dresses
(b) Dust off her trophies
(c) Vacuum her daughter’s messes up
(d) Polish her daughter’s beauty crowns
2. Describing her mother’s reaction to her hurtful words, Jing-Mei says, “she backed out of the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like” what?
(a) A small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless
(b) A wisp of hair, broken and abandoned
(c) A dandelion in the autumn sunset
(d) A paper sack, dull and soiled
3. 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”?
(a) Revenge
(b) Failure
(c) Despair
(d) Sadness
4. Of her first lessons with Mr. Chong, Jing-Mei says, “I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord and then I just played some nonsense that sounded like” what?
(a) A cat running up and down on top of garbage cans
(b) A solitary violin
(c) A crash of bricks against a tin rooftop
(d) A chorus of birds singing in the treetops
5. Who is the only person applauding when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsy at the talent show?
(a) Jing-Mei’s mother
(b) Auntie Lindo
(c) Mr. Chong
(d) Jing-Mei’s father
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Jing-Mei describe her mother’s first children in the beginning of the story?
2. How many days after the talent show is it when Jing-Mei is surprised that her mother insists she practice piano?
3. Of Auntie Lindo’s daughter, Jing-Mei says “We had grown up together and shared all the closeness of two sisters squabbling over crayons and dolls. In other words, for the most part, we” what?
4. What is Jing-Mei doing on the day when her mother insists she go practice at the piano after the talent show fiasco?
5. What does Jing-Mei promise herself when she has the revelation while staring in the bathroom mirror as a child?
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