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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. What does the phrase “Ni kan” translate to, according to the narrator?
2. What does Jing-Mei respond to her mother on the phone when her mother offers her the piano for her birthday and says, “You could been genius if you wanted to”?
3. When Jing-Mei argues with her mother over piano practice after the talent show, she says, “As I said these things I got scared. I felt like” what were “crawling out of my chest”?
4. 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?
5. Where does Jing-Mei describe the piano as standing in her parents’ living room at the end of the story?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the most significant element of the communication and culture gaps between Jing-Mei and her mother in the story?
2. How does Jing-Mei respond to her mother’s offer on her thirtieth birthday?
3. What innovations in literary style is Amy Tan known for?
4. What does Jing-Mei overhear her mother and Auntie Lindo talking about after she’s studied piano for a year?
5. When does Jing-Mei’s mother first introduce to her the concept of a child prodigy?
6. What theme connects “Two Kinds” to the other stories in The Joy Luck Club?
7. How and when did the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act influence immigration in the U.S.?
8. How does Suyuan Woo develop and maintain her sense of identity in the story?
9. What arrangement is made between Suyuan Woo and Mr. Chong in regards to Jing-Mei’s piano study and practice?
10. How does Jing-Mei describe Mr. Chong when she begins piano lessons with him? What does she secretly nickname him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the imagery and symbolism of Jing-Mei’s transformation that occurs when she cries in the mirror. How does the image of Jing-Mei’s reflection give her strength? What does she do with this strength? What does this moment signify in Jing-Mei’s life?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the character of Jing-Mei Woo in “Two Kinds.” How old is Jing-Mei when the narrative begins with her mother’s discussion of child prodigies? Does Jing-Mei comment on the action of the story or does she relate it objectively? How does this reveal her character? How does Jing-Mei change in the course of the story?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and discuss the character of Suyuan Woo in “Two Kinds.” How does Jing-Mei describe her mother’s tragic history and her immigration into the U.S.? What happened to Suyuan’s young twin daughters? What does Suyuan believe? How does she change in the story?
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