Two Kinds Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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Two Kinds Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jing-Mei describe her family’s television at the time when her mother watched The Ed Sullivan Show?

2. By what name does Jing-Mei refer to Mr. Chong’s mother as in the story?

3. Jing-Mei describes sitting down nightly with her mother to examine stories of child prodigies when she was a child. The first of these stories is about a boy who knows all the state capitals and most of the European countries at what age?

4. 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?

5. Of Auntie Lindo, Jing-Mei’s mother says in the beginning of the story, “Her daughter, she is only best” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei say to her mother to hurt her during their conflict in the climax of the story? How does Suyuan respond?

2. What does Jing-Mei describe doing every night with her mother at the kitchen table as a child in the beginning of the story?

3. How does the concept of identity relate centrally to the conflicts in “Two Kinds”?

4. How do Suyuan Woo’s actions in the story encourage the wrong responses from her daughter? What effects does this have on Jing-Mei?

5. How does Jing-Mei describe her mother’s immigration to America in the opening of the story? What did she leave behind?

6. What child star does Suyuan Woo attempt to mold her daughter into? What happens with this attempt?

7. What offer does Jing-Mei’s mother make her approaching Jing-Mei’s thirtieth birthday?

8. How does Suyuan Woo develop and maintain her sense of identity in the story?

9. What discovery does Jing-Mei make regarding the song she played at the talent show in the end of the story?

10. How does Jing-Mei describe her relationship to the piano after her fallout with her mother after the talent show?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the song “Pleading Child” from Schumann’s Scenes from Childhood and examine the symbolism of this song in the story. How does this song correlate to Jing-Mei’s relationship with her mother? What does she later discover about the song?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the character of Jing-Mei Woo in “Two Kinds.” How old is Jing-Mei when the narrative begins with her mother’s discussion of child prodigies? Does Jing-Mei comment on the action of the story or does she relate it objectively? How does this reveal her character? How does Jing-Mei change in the course of the story?

Essay Topic 3

Identify and discuss the elements of narrative style in “Two Kinds.” Is the story related in the past, present or future tense? Is the story told from a first, second, or third person narrator? Is the narrator involved in the action? Examine the different reasons the author may have chosen this style. What do you think it adds to the story?

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