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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jing-Mei describes the girl playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show as having the sauciness of whom?
(a) Little Orphan Annie
(b) John Wayne
(c) Peter Pan
(d) Shirley Temple

2. 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?
(a) Why she had left her children behind
(b) Why she had given up hope
(c) Why she wanted to hurt me
(d) Why she had believed in me

3. What word from the story mean to find fault in, blame, or censure?
(a) Adulterate
(b) Reproach
(c) Tolerate
(d) Confiscate

4. How does Jing-Mei describe Mr. Chong’s eyes as always looking when she began piano lessons with him?
(a) Dark and mysterious
(b) Daunting and scary
(c) Sprightly and bright
(d) Tired and sleepy

5. In what year did the film Bright Eyes bring Shirley Temple international fame?
(a) 1959
(b) 1948
(c) 1934
(d) 1951

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei say she put her mother’s jewelry in after her death at the end of the story?

2. Jing-Mei says of Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons that “he must have been younger than I thought, since he” what?

3. How does Jing-Mei describe her family’s television at the time when her mother watched The Ed Sullivan Show?

4. Where did author Amy Tan grow up?

5. What answer does Jing-Mei give when her mother asks her early in the story, “What’s the capital of Finland?”

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