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

2. Who does Jing-Mei tell her mother she wishes she were like as they argue about piano practice after the talent show?
(a) Her great-grandmother
(b) Her distant cousins
(c) Her “dead” daughters
(d) Her first husband

3. How do Jing-Mei and her parents travel home after the talent show?
(a) By limousine
(b) By bus
(c) By train
(d) By taxi

4. Of her childhood and the ambitions that Jing-Mei and her mother felt for her at this time, she says in the beginning of the story, “In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become” what?
(a) Beautiful
(b) Perfect
(c) Worthwhile
(d) Free

5. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her she looks like after she’s been given a bad perm at the beauty school?
(a) Negro Chinese
(b) A Cupie Doll
(c) An orphan
(d) Raggedy Anne

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Jing-Mei use to describe Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the narrative?

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

3. Where does Jing-Mei live while growing up?

4. Who performs first at the talent show where Jing-Mei makes her piano debut?

5. At what time does Jing-Mei’s mother insist that Jing-Mei begin her piano practice following the talent show fiasco?

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