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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. When Jing-Mei refuses to practice piano after the talent show, she tells her mother, “Why should I? I’m not” what?
3. How does Jing-Mei say she felt when her time to perform her piano solo at the talent show came?
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”?
5. When Jing-Mei was helping her father get things in order after Jing-Mei’s mother died, she says she found “some old Chinese silk dresses, the kind with” what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What comment does Waverly Jong make to Jing-Mei after her performance at the talent show? How does this make Jing-Mei feel?
2. What do the Schumann songs at the end of the story represent symbolically?
3. In what ways can the reader see early in the story that Jing-Mei’s ambitions (and her mother’s) are misplaced?
4. What does Jing-Mei describe doing every night with her mother at the kitchen table as a child in the beginning of the story?
5. What offer does Jing-Mei’s mother make her approaching Jing-Mei’s thirtieth birthday?
6. What innovations in literary style is Amy Tan known for?
7. How do Jing-Mei’s feelings about her mother’s ambitions begin to change early in the story? What causes her feelings to change?
8. How does Jing-Mei describe her performance at the talent show?
9. How does Jing-Mei describe the process of playing scales for Mr. Chong?
10. How does Jing-Mei describe the piece she is to play at the talent show? How does she describe her practice for the performance?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze and discuss the character of Lindo Jong in “Two Kinds.” How well do Jing-Mei and her mother know Lindo? What kind of relationship does Suyuan Woo have with this friend? How do the Woos feel about the Jong family?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the theme of sacrifice as illustrated through the character of Suyuan Woo in “Two Kinds.” In what ways is “sacrifice” a central theme in the process of Suyuan’s immigration to the U.S.? What has she sacrificed in order for her daughter to have a better life?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the setting of “Two Kinds” and examine the population, culture, and history of San Francisco’s Chinatown. How large is this neighborhood in the city? How diverse is its population? How did Chinatown differ in the 1950s from today?
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