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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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
2. Jing-Mei says that as a child “sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient.” What did Jing-Mei’s inner prodigy tell her at this time?
(a) If I’m not on stage in a year, I’ll never get there
(b) If you don’t hurry up and get me out of here, I’m disappearing for good
(c) Tell her to stop making you do this. This is taking forever
(d) I’m dying of boredom. When are we going to do something fun?
3. What does Jing-Mei promise herself when she has the revelation while staring in the bathroom mirror as a child?
(a) I won’t get married to him
(b) I won’t let her change me
(c) I won’t allow myself to be a victim
(d) I won’t become an actress
4. What are the names of the families from the Joy Luck Club that come up to Jing-Mei’s mother and father after Jing-Mei’s performance at the talent show?
(a) The Tsings, the Lees and the Hsus
(b) The Woos, the Lees, and the Wilsons
(c) The Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs
(d) The Yus, the Tsings, and the Lees
5. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kinds” is related from what perspective?
(a) First-person
(b) Third-person
(c) Fourth-person
(d) Second-person
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did Jing-Mei’s mother abandon her first children, hoping for them to become adopted?
2. At the talent show where Jing-Mei makes her piano debut, she describes an eleven-year-old boy who won first prize for what performance?
3. What does Jing-Mei say to defend the young piano player on The Ed Sullivan Show when her mother criticizes her performance?
4. What word from the narrative means under a magical trance?
5. After Jing-Mei’s hair debacle where it was cut off like a boy’s, what statement does she make about her feelings of the haircut?
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