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

2. Jing-Mei soon learns after beginning her piano lessons with Mr. Chong that he is deaf. He compares himself to what composer, saying “We’re both listening only in our head”?
(a) Chopin
(b) Beethoven
(c) Mozart
(d) Berlioz

3. Mr. Chong and Jing-Mei’s mother conspire to have Jing-Mei perform in a talent show held where in the story?
(a) In the church hall
(b) At Carnegie Hall
(c) At a small Broadway venue
(d) At the town hall

4. Of her lack of ambitions in music, Jing-Mei says “I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant” what?
(a) Hymns
(b) Sonatas
(c) Soliloquies
(d) Waltzes

5. At what time does Jing-Mei have access to Mr. Chong’s piano for her daily practice sessions when she begins studying with him?
(a) 3:00-5:00 p.m.
(b) 6:00-9:00 p.m.
(c) 4:00-6:00 p.m.
(d) 2:00-6:00 p.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story of her mother that she had “never found a way to ask her why she had hoped for something so large that” what “was inevitable”?

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

3. Jing-Mei’s mother tells her when Jing-Mei resists taking piano lessons, “Who ask you be genius? Only ask you be” what?

4. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kinds” is related from what perspective?

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

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