Two Kinds Test | Final Test - Easy

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Two Kinds Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What college does Jing-Mei say she didn’t get into, causing more disappointment for her mother?
(a) Yale
(b) Emerson
(c) Stanford
(d) Oxford

2. What does Jing-Mei say to defend the young piano player on The Ed Sullivan Show when her mother criticizes her performance?
(a) I think her playing sounds beautiful. I don’t know what you’re talking about
(b) She’s pretty good. Maybe she’s not the best, but she’s trying hard
(c) I’m sure she’s practiced. Her parents have money for good training
(d) She’s not that good, but she’s got a great dress and demeanor

3. Examine the following sentence from the narrative: “I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the right track.” What literary device is used in this example?
(a) Metaphor
(b) Simile
(c) Onomatopoeia
(d) Jargon

4. What does Jing-Mei say she mostly did do while she was practicing her music for the talent show?
(a) Practiced her scales and chords
(b) Focused on the keys she was playing
(c) Daydreamed about being elsewhere
(d) Listened to all the errors she made

5. When Jing-Mei’s mother asks her for the capital of Finland, Jing-Mei responds with the capital of what country in the beginning of the story?
(a) Great Britain
(b) Australia
(c) Kenya
(d) France

6. How old is the little girl on The Ed Sullivan Show that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano?
(a) 16
(b) 3
(c) 12
(d) 9

7. How many days have passed since Jing-Mei and her mother watched The Ed Sullivan Show when Jing-Mei’s mother tells her that she will be taking piano lessons?
(a) 6
(b) 3
(c) 5
(d) 4

8. Jing-Mei describes the girl playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show as taking a fancy sweep of a curtsy so that the fluffy skirt of her “dress cascaded slowly to the floor like the petals of” what?
(a) A large orchid
(b) A giant daisy
(c) A giant rose
(d) A large carnation

9. Of her first lessons with Mr. Chong, Jing-Mei says, “I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord and then I just played some nonsense that sounded like” what?
(a) A cat running up and down on top of garbage cans
(b) A solitary violin
(c) A crash of bricks against a tin rooftop
(d) A chorus of birds singing in the treetops

10. 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) 12
(b) 3
(c) 5
(d) 2

11. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong’s mother as having a particular smell about her of what?
(a) Freshly mowed grass and spring
(b) Baked apple pies and the smell of autumn
(c) Fresh flowers and stale perfume
(d) A baby that had done something in its pants

12. What word does Jing-Mei use in describing Mr. Chong’s silent instrumental compositions with a vague and dreamy character?
(a) Reverie
(b) Staccato
(c) Trill
(d) Arpeggio

13. What does Jing-Mei realize about the song she finds next to the one she played for the talent show at the end of the story?
(a) It is the second half of the same song
(b) It is composed by Mr. Chong
(c) It is composed by her mother
(d) It is the opposite of the previous song

14. How many sons does Auntie Lindo have in the story?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 4
(d) 3

15. Jing-Mei says of Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons that “he must have been younger than I thought, since he” what?
(a) Lived with his mother and was not yet married
(b) Had two young children and a young wife
(c) Had sisters that were my mother’s age
(d) Had no children and was not yet married

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jing-Mei describe the look on her mother’s face when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsey after her piano solo in the talent show?

2. Who founded the Ripley’s Believe It or Not franchise?

3. What is Auntie Lindo’s husband’s name?

4. Where did author Amy Tan grow up?

5. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kinds” is related from what perspective?

(see the answer keys)

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