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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) Waltzes
(b) Sonatas
(c) Soliloquies
(d) Hymns
2. In what year did the film Bright Eyes bring Shirley Temple international fame?
(a) 1934
(b) 1948
(c) 1959
(d) 1951
3. Jing-Mei describes her mother having given her a Bible page to study and then report everything she could remember when she was a child. What does Jing-Mei tell her mother is all she can recall from the passage?
(a) For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith
(b) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
(c) Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance
(d) And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose
4. Who does Jing-Mei tell her mother she wishes she were like as they argue about piano practice after the talent show?
(a) Her “dead” daughters
(b) Her great-grandmother
(c) Her distant cousins
(d) Her first husband
5. How does Jing-Mei say her academic career ended in “Two Kinds”?
(a) She dropped out of college
(b) She earned a law degree
(c) She earned a master’s degree
(d) She earned a bachelor’s degree
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Jing-Mei describe her mother’s first children in the beginning of the story?
2. For how long does Jing-Mei say she practiced piano with Mr. Chong before she overheard her mother and Auntie Lindo bragging about their children?
3. Jing-Mei’s mother tells her when Jing-Mei resists taking piano lessons, “Who ask you be genius? Only ask you be” what?
4. From what opera does Jing-Mei describe the “breasted girl with white makeup” singing from at the talent show?
5. 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?
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