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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kind” is related in what tense?
(a) Past tense
(b) Present tense
(c) Future-possessive tense
(d) Future tense

2. Jing-Mei says that soon after her mother got the idea for her to be a Chinese Shirley Temple, she took her to a beauty school in what district?
(a) Potrero Hill
(b) The Mission district
(c) Noe Valley
(d) SoHo

3. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her on the phone that she has when offering her the piano for her birthday?
(a) Practiced skill
(b) Lots of money
(c) Children who might want to learn
(d) Natural talent

4. What is Jing-Mei’s last name in the story?
(a) Woo
(b) Jong
(c) Chong
(d) Hsu

5. What sensation does Jing-Mei describe as she begins hitting one wrong note after another during the talent show?
(a) A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down
(b) A shiver of excitement started in my hands and spread up my arms
(c) I felt a wave of terror and then everything went black
(d) A burning sensation in my heart and then an inability to breathe

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her she looks like after she’s been given a bad perm at the beauty school?

2. What musical term in the story refers to the sounding of notes in a chord in rapid succession instead of simultaneously?”

3. Examine the following sentence from the narrative: “I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the right track.” What literary device is used in this example?

4. Where did Jing-Mei’s mother abandon her first children, hoping for them to become adopted?

5. What is the name of the song that Jing-Mei finds next to the Schumann piece she played for the talent show at the end of the story?

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