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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of the following is a major theme throughout “Two Kinds”?
(a) Father-daughter relationships
(b) Political corruption
(c) Mother-daughter relationships
(d) Sister-brother rivalry
2. Of Auntie Lindo’s daughter, Jing-Mei says “We had grown up together and shared all the closeness of two sisters squabbling over crayons and dolls. In other words, for the most part, we” what?
(a) Pestered each other
(b) Hated each other
(c) Envied each other
(d) Loved each other
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?
(a) His wife’s heartbeat
(b) An invisible orchestra
(c) An era long passed
(d) An imaginary guitar
4. What does Jing-Mei say she mostly did do while she was practicing her music for the talent show?
(a) Focused on the keys she was playing
(b) Listened to all the errors she made
(c) Daydreamed about being elsewhere
(d) Practiced her scales and chords
5. What does Jing-Mei wear in her hair at the talent show?
(a) A yellow bow
(b) A pink bow
(c) A silver crown
(d) A gold ribbon
Short Answer Questions
1. When Jing-Mei has a revelation while staring at herself in the bathroom mirror as a child, she says, “I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts willed with lots of” what?
2. How does Jing-Mei describe her mother’s first children in the beginning of the story?
3. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story that she had never asked her mother about her hope, “And that even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most”. What is the question that so frightened Jing-Mei?
4. What is the name of the street that Jing-Mei’s family lives on when she is a child?
5. 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?
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