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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What answer does Jing-Mei give when her mother asks her early in the story, “What’s the capital of Finland?”
(a) Lexington
(b) Omaha
(c) Nairobi
(d) Rockland
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 Woos, the Lees, and the Wilsons
(b) The Tsings, the Lees and the Hsus
(c) The Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs
(d) The Yus, the Tsings, and the Lees
3. When was the Chinese Exclusion Act signed into law?
(a) 1915
(b) 1862
(c) 1948
(d) 1882
4. Jing-Mei is to play a song from what Schumann opus at the talent show?
(a) Flower Piece
(b) Album for the Young
(c) Scenes from Childhood
(d) Butterflies
5. What does Jing-Mei kick under her feet as her mother drags her to the piano for practice after the talent show?
(a) The cat
(b) The bedspread
(c) Throw rugs
(d) The piano bench
Short Answer Questions
1. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of the story that at first her mother thought she could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. “We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were” what?
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?
3. Jing-Mei says that during her childhood, the tests her mother gave her “got harder—multiplying numbers in my head, finding” what card in a deck of cards?
4. Jing-Mei says that soon after her mother got the idea for her to be a Chinese Shirley Temple, she took her to a beauty school in what district?
5. 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?
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