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

2. What does Jing-Mei’s mother die from?
(a) Cancer
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) A brain aneurysm
(d) A car accident

3. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her she looks like after she’s been given a bad perm at the beauty school?
(a) An orphan
(b) Raggedy Anne
(c) Negro Chinese
(d) A Cupie Doll

4. What illness did Jing-Mei’s mother contract while trying to flee China?
(a) Pneumonia
(b) Dysentery
(c) Malaria
(d) Gangrene

5. What answer does Jing-Mei give when her mother asks her early in the story, “What’s the capital of Finland?”
(a) Rockland
(b) Omaha
(c) Lexington
(d) Nairobi

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the name of the street that Jing-Mei’s family lives on when she is a child?

3. When Jing-Mei and her mother get into an argument about Jing-Mei beginning piano lessons, Jing-Mei’s mother exclaims, “If she had as much talent as she has temper, she would be” what?

4. What does Jing-Mei’s mother trade with Mr. Chong so that Jing-Mei may take piano lessons from him?

5. How does Jing-Mei describe the look on her mother’s face when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsey after her piano solo in the talent show?

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