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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Jing-Mei use to describe Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the narrative?
(a) Humble
(b) Snotty
(c) Voluptuous
(d) Gracious

2. 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) Dust off her trophies
(b) Vacuum her daughter’s messes up
(c) Polish her daughter’s beauty crowns
(d) Clean her daughter’s pageant dresses

3. Edvard Grieg is considered one of the leading composers of what era?
(a) The Surrealist era
(b) The Postmodernist era
(c) The Modernist era
(d) The Romantic era

4. Jing-Mei soon learns after beginning her piano lessons with Mr. Chong that he is deaf. He compares himself to what composer, saying “We’re both listening only in our head”?
(a) Mozart
(b) Berlioz
(c) Chopin
(d) Beethoven

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago does Jing-Mei say she sent a tuner to her parents’ apartment to recondition the piano at the end of the story?

2. When was Shirley Temple born?

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. 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?

5. What word from the story means coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited?

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