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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What U.S. President signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law?
(a) Teddy Roosevelt
(b) James McCarthy
(c) Chester A. Arthur
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt

2. 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 gives them to her father
(b) She sells them
(c) She takes them home with her
(d) She gives them to her sister

3. As Jing-Mei sits down to begin her piano solo at the talent show, she envisions whom rushing up to introduce her to everyone on TV?
(a) Bob Newhart
(b) Johnny Carson
(c) James Dean
(d) Ed Sullivan

4. After Jing-Mei’s mother tells her that she has enrolled her in piano lessons, Jing-Mei says, “When my mother told me this, I felt as though I had been” what?
(a) Sent to hell
(b) Given a kingdom
(c) Swept under the rug
(d) Sent to heaven

5. What does Jing-Mei’s mother trade with Mr. Chong so that Jing-Mei may take piano lessons from him?
(a) Home-cooked meals
(b) Dog-walking services
(c) Housecleaning services
(d) Medical advice

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei say to defend the young piano player on The Ed Sullivan Show when her mother criticizes her performance?

2. When was the Magnuson Act signed into law?

3. When Jing-Mei has a revelation while staring at herself in the bathroom mirror as a child, she says, “I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts willed with lots of” what?

4. As Jing-Mei walks back to her seat after her performance in the talent show, she overhears a little boy say to his mother, “That was awful.” What does the boy’s mother reply?

5. Jing-Mei says of Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons that “he must have been younger than I thought, since he” what?

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