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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Jing-Mei’s performance at the talent show, she says, “We could have escaped during intermission.” What does she say “must have anchored my parents to their chairs”?
(a) A desire to not be shown up by their neighbors
(b) A love for music
(c) Pride and some strange sense of honor
(d) A need to punish me further

2. When Jing-Mei’s mother still lived in China, her husband was serving as an officer where?
(a) Shanghai
(b) Beijing
(c) Guangzhou
(d) Chongqing

3. Jing-Mei describes the fingers of Mr. Chong’s mother as feeling like what?
(a) The inside of an oyster
(b) A dead person’s
(c) A jellyfish
(d) A fat baby’s

4. When was the Magnuson Act signed into law?
(a) 1959
(b) 1988
(c) 1943
(d) 1961

5. 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) The Mission district
(b) SoHo
(c) Potrero Hill
(d) Noe Valley

Short Answer Questions

1. What musical term from Jing-Mei’s piano lessons means characterized by abruptness and disconnectedness?

2. When did the Japanese invasion of China take place, leading Jing-Mei’s mother to flee China?

3. When does Jing-Mei say her mother came to America?

4. When Jing-Mei and her mother get into an argument about Jing-Mei beginning piano lessons, Jing-Mei’s mother exclaims, “If she had as much talent as she has temper, she would be” what?

5. What does the piano symbolize in “Two Kinds”?

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