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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of her lack of ambitions in music, Jing-Mei says “I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant” what?
(a) Soliloquies
(b) Hymns
(c) Sonatas
(d) Waltzes

2. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong’s mother as having a particular smell about her of what?
(a) Baked apple pies and the smell of autumn
(b) Fresh flowers and stale perfume
(c) Freshly mowed grass and spring
(d) A baby that had done something in its pants

3. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kinds” is related from what perspective?
(a) Second-person
(b) First-person
(c) Third-person
(d) Fourth-person

4. What word from the story means to play music with a vibratory or quavering effect?
(a) Bass
(b) Treble
(c) Sonata
(d) Trill

5. How does Jing-Mei’s mother respond when Jing-Mei throws a fit when she’s told she’ll be taking piano lessons?
(a) She calls her father
(b) She weeps
(c) She slaps her
(d) She laughs at her

Short Answer Questions

1. When her mother offered to give her the piano for her birthday, Jing-Mei says she saw this action as what?

2. What is the neighborhood called where Jing-Mei’s family lives when she’s a child?

3. How do Jing-Mei and her parents travel home after the talent show?

4. Who does Jing-Mei tell her mother she wishes she were like as they argue about piano practice after the talent show?

5. What color dress does Jing-Mei describe the girl wearing that she watches playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show with her mother?

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