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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 promise herself when she has the revelation while staring in the bathroom mirror as a child?
(a) I won’t allow myself to be a victim
(b) I won’t get married to him
(c) I won’t become an actress
(d) I won’t let her change me

2. 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 Förster upright
(b) A Steinway upright
(c) A Steinway grand
(d) A Wurlitzer spinet

3. What does Jing-Mei’s father do as they travel home after the talent show?
(a) He silently weeps
(b) He apologizes
(c) He slaps Jing-Mei
(d) He hums

4. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kind” is related in what tense?
(a) Future tense
(b) Past tense
(c) Future-possessive tense
(d) Present tense

5. How many days after the talent show is it when Jing-Mei is surprised that her mother insists she practice piano?
(a) 4
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 5

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the neighborhood called where Jing-Mei’s family lives when she’s a child?

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

3. When Jing-Mei has a revelation while staring at herself in the bathroom mirror as a child, how does she describe the girl who is staring back at her?

4. When Jing-Mei’s mother still lived in China, her husband was serving as an officer where?

5. What musical term in the story refers to the sounding of notes in a chord in rapid succession instead of simultaneously?”

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