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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word from the story means coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited?
(a) Impertinent
(b) Depreciatory
(c) Nonchalant
(d) Fanatical

3. What is the neighborhood called where Jing-Mei’s family lives when she’s a child?
(a) Little Italy
(b) SoHo
(c) Nob Hill
(d) Chinatown

4. 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?
(a) Confused
(b) Stricken
(c) Proud
(d) Joyful

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what ethnicity is the little girl on The Ed Sullivan Show that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano?

2. How does Jing-Mei say she felt every time she saw the piano in her parents’ living room at the end of the story?

3. Mr. Chong and Jing-Mei’s mother conspire to have Jing-Mei perform in a talent show held where in the story?

4. “Two Kinds” is a short story that was initially published in what periodical in February 1989?

5. Of Auntie Lindo, Jing-Mei’s mother says in the beginning of the story, “Her daughter, she is only best” what?

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