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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 do with the Chinese silk dresses she finds when sorting through her mother’s things at the end of the story?
(a) She gives them to her sister
(b) She takes them home with her
(c) She gives them to her father
(d) She sells them

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 first husband
(c) Her distant cousins
(d) Her “dead” daughters

3. 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?
(a) Go on TV if you paid me a million dollars
(b) Take lessons from Mr. Chong
(c) Be able to play it well enough for your expectations
(d) Play for you

4. After Jing-Mei’s mother tells her that she has enrolled her in piano lessons, Jing-Mei says, “When my mother told me this, I felt as though I had been” what?
(a) Sent to hell
(b) Swept under the rug
(c) Sent to heaven
(d) Given a kingdom

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname does Jing-Mei say she secretly gave Mr. Chong when she began taking piano lessons with him?

2. Jing-Mei says that her mother offered to give her the piano for her birthday when she turned how old?

3. What does Jing-Mei promise herself when she has the revelation while staring in the bathroom mirror as a child?

4. What is Jing-Mei’s last name in the story?

5. Jing-Mei says that as a child “sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient.” What did Jing-Mei’s inner prodigy tell her at this time?

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