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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Auntie Lindo’s last name in the story?
(a) Jong
(b) Hsu
(c) St. Clair
(d) Woo

2. The Magnuson Act was passed in the year that China became what?
(a) An official ally to the Germans in World War II
(b) An official ally to the U.S. in the Korean War
(c) An official ally to the U.S. in World War I
(d) An official ally to the U.S. in World War II

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?
(a) 2
(b) 12
(c) 5
(d) 3

4. What answer does Jing-Mei give when her mother asks her early in the story, “What’s the capital of Finland?”
(a) Nairobi
(b) Lexington
(c) Rockland
(d) Omaha

5. What does Jing-Mei’s father do as they travel home after the talent show?
(a) He hums
(b) He slaps Jing-Mei
(c) He silently weeps
(d) He apologizes

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of the story that at first her mother thought she could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. “We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were” what?

2. At what time does Jing-Mei’s mother insist that Jing-Mei begin her piano practice following the talent show fiasco?

3. How old was Shirley Temple when she began her film career?

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

5. After Jing-Mei’s mother tells her that she has enrolled her in piano lessons, Jing-Mei says, “When my mother told me this, I felt as though I had been” what?

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