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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 hair debacle where it was cut off like a boy’s, what statement does she make about her feelings of the haircut?
(a) I hated the haircut and it made me feel like I would never live up to my mother’s expectations
(b) I liked the haircut and it made me actually look forward to my future fame
(c) I liked the haircut and felt like I would now no longer be bullied in school
(d) I thought the haircut made me look like a villain from a Disney movie
2. What does Jing-Mei say she mostly did do while she was practicing her music for the talent show?
(a) Practiced her scales and chords
(b) Listened to all the errors she made
(c) Focused on the keys she was playing
(d) Daydreamed about being elsewhere
3. What word from the narrative means under a magical trance?
(a) Elated
(b) Trilled
(c) Engulfed
(d) Bewitched
4. How does Jing-Mei described her family’s kitchen table where she would sit after dinner with her mother during her childhood?
(a) Formica
(b) Oak
(c) Plywood
(d) Marble
5. Jing-Mei says to her mother as they argue over piano practice after the talent show, “I’ll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!” Her mother responds, “Only two kinds of daughters.” What are these two kinds?
(a) Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind
(b) Those who are respectful and those who are ungrateful
(c) Those who carry their name with pride and those who don’t
(d) Those who marry young and those who are old widows
Short Answer Questions
1. Mr. Chong and Jing-Mei’s mother conspire to have Jing-Mei perform in a talent show held where in the story?
2. How does Jing-Mei describe Mr. Chong’s eyes as always looking when she began piano lessons with him?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. How many days after the talent show is it when Jing-Mei is surprised that her mother insists she practice piano?
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