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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei say she never really did while she practiced for her talent show?
(a) Listened to what she was playing
(b) Connect with the music that flowed through her
(c) Worry about how she looked while playing
(d) Think about anything other than the music

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

3. Auntie Lindo tells Jing-Mei’s mother that all day long she has no time to do anything but what, when she is bragging about her daughter?
(a) Clean her daughter’s pageant dresses
(b) Dust off her trophies
(c) Polish her daughter’s beauty crowns
(d) Vacuum her daughter’s messes up

4. What refers to circular toys that are twirled around the waist, and that some of the children used at the talent show when Jing-Mei made her piano debut?
(a) Jump ropes
(b) Juggling balls
(c) Hula Hoops
(d) Yo-yos

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?
(a) Peter’s Waltz
(b) Perfectly Contented
(c) Pleading Child
(d) Anita’s Dance

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei describes the girl playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show as taking a fancy sweep of a curtsy so that the fluffy skirt of her “dress cascaded slowly to the floor like the petals of” what?

2. Who founded the Ripley’s Believe It or Not franchise?

3. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of the story that at first her mother thought she could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. “We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were” what?

4. When Jing-Mei’s mother enrolls her in piano lessons, Jing-Mei says, “I can’t play the piano. And even if I could, I wouldn’t” what?

5. “Two Kinds” is a short story from Amy Tan’s book The Joy Luck Club. This collection of short stories revolves around the lives of Chinese immigrant women who form a club and play what game?

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