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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. “Two Kinds” is a short story from Amy Tan’s book The Joy Luck Club. This collection of short stories revolves around the lives of Chinese immigrant women who form a club and play what game?
(a) Chess
(b) Mah-jongg
(c) Chinese checkers
(d) Bridge

2. Jing-Mei is to play a song from what Schumann opus at the talent show?
(a) Scenes from Childhood
(b) Album for the Young
(c) Flower Piece
(d) Butterflies

3. By the time that Jing-Mei is preparing to play in the talent recital, her parents have bought her what kind of secondhand piano?
(a) A Steinway upright
(b) A Förster upright
(c) A Wurlitzer spinet
(d) A Steinway grand

4. One of the tests that Jing-Mei’s mother gave her as she attempted to lure out the prodigy in her daughter was predicting the daily temperatures in what three cities?
(a) Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles
(b) Seattle, Minneapolis, and New York
(c) New York, Paris, and London
(d) Los Angeles, New York, and London

5. 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 scared, but hopeful
(c) I was terrified
(d) I was worried

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How does Jing-Mei say she felt every time she saw the piano in her parents’ living room at the end of the story?

3. What word from the story means to play music with a vibratory or quavering effect?

4. What does Jing-Mei say she put her mother’s jewelry in after her death at the end of the story?

5. How old is the boy at the talent show that is described as wearing a fake moustache and doing a magic show?

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