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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Jing-Mei’s mother asks her for the capital of Finland, Jing-Mei responds with the capital of what country in the beginning of the story?
(a) Kenya
(b) Great Britain
(c) France
(d) Australia

2. How does Jing-Mei say she felt when her time to perform her piano solo at the talent show came?
(a) I was very confident
(b) I was terrified
(c) I was scared, but hopeful
(d) I was worried

3. What does Jing-Mei kick under her feet as her mother drags her to the piano for practice after the talent show?
(a) Throw rugs
(b) The cat
(c) The bedspread
(d) The piano bench

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?
(a) Famous now
(b) A better daughter
(c) Easier to deal with
(d) Rich now

5. What illness did Jing-Mei’s mother contract while trying to flee China?
(a) Malaria
(b) Gangrene
(c) Dysentery
(d) Pneumonia

Short Answer Questions

1. “Two Kinds” is a short story that was initially published in what periodical in February 1989?

2. What musical term from the story means pertaining to the lowest part in harmonic music?

3. Of her first lessons with Mr. Chong, Jing-Mei says, “I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord and then I just played some nonsense that sounded like” what?

4. How does Jing-Mei’s mother respond when Jing-Mei throws a fit when she’s told she’ll be taking piano lessons?

5. What complaint does Jing-Mei’s mother make about the young piano prodigy that she watches on The Ed Sullivan Show?

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