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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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?
(a) Envied each other
(b) Loved each other
(c) Hated each other
(d) Pestered each other
2. Jing-Mei describes her mother having given her a Bible page to study and then report everything she could remember when she was a child. What does Jing-Mei tell her mother is all she can recall from the passage?
(a) Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance
(b) And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose
(c) For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith
(d) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
3. What musical term, taught by Mr. Chong to Jing-Mei in their lessons, means pertaining to the highest part in harmonized music?
(a) Bass
(b) Treble
(c) Scale
(d) Sonata
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 sells them
(b) She gives them to her father
(c) She takes them home with her
(d) She gives them to her sister
5. How does Jing-Mei say her academic career ended in “Two Kinds”?
(a) She earned a master’s degree
(b) She earned a law degree
(c) She earned a bachelor’s degree
(d) She dropped out of college
Short Answer Questions
1. At what time does Jing-Mei’s mother insist that Jing-Mei begin her piano practice following the talent show fiasco?
2. What is Auntie Lindo’s husband’s name?
3. When did the Japanese invasion of China take place, leading Jing-Mei’s mother to flee China?
4. In the 1993 film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, what actress played the role of Jing-Mei?
5. What composition does the piano prodigy play by Edvard Grieg on The Ed Sullivan Show as Jing-Mei and her mother watch?
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