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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jing-Mei says that Mr. Chong would have her curve her hand around what object and then keep that shape while playing chords?
(a) A potato
(b) An apple
(c) A penny
(d) A rope

2. What is the name of Jing-Mei’s mother in “Two Kinds”?
(a) An-Mei Hsu
(b) Suyuan Woo
(c) Lindo Jong
(d) Wu-Tsing Hsu

3. How do Jing-Mei and her parents travel home after the talent show?
(a) By train
(b) By taxi
(c) By bus
(d) By limousine

4. Of her childhood and the ambitions that Jing-Mei and her mother felt for her at this time, she says in the beginning of the story, “In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become” what?
(a) Worthwhile
(b) Beautiful
(c) Free
(d) Perfect

5. What is Jing-Mei doing on the day when her mother insists she go practice at the piano after the talent show fiasco?
(a) Writing in her journal
(b) Calling a friend
(c) Watching TV
(d) Listening to the radio

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1993 film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, what actress played the role of Jing-Mei?

2. What does Jing-Mei say Mr. Chong would balance on her wrists as she practiced piano so that she would keep them still?

3. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons with him as “very strange, always tapping his fingers to the silent music of” what?

4. What word from the narrative means under a magical trance?

5. What is symbolized by the second song that Jing-Mei finds in her piano workbook at the end of the story?

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