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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 say she put her mother’s jewelry in after her death at the end of the story?
(a) A box made of tin
(b) Special silk pouches
(c) A post office box
(d) A bank vault

2. Who founded the Ripley’s Believe It or Not franchise?
(a) George Ripley
(b) Alexander Ripley
(c) Robert Ripley
(d) James Ripley

3. How does Jing-Mei describe her mother’s first children in the beginning of the story?
(a) Three sons
(b) Twin baby boys
(c) A boy and a girl
(d) Twin baby girls

4. What word from the story means coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited?
(a) Depreciatory
(b) Impertinent
(c) Nonchalant
(d) Fanatical

5. When Jing-Mei argues with her mother over piano practice after the talent show, she says, “As I said these things I got scared. I felt like” what were “crawling out of my chest”?
(a) Worms and toads and slimy things
(b) Phantoms and ghosts and darkness
(c) Demons and beasts and dragons
(d) The living dead and all my past

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her she looks like after she’s been given a bad perm at the beauty school?

2. Jing-Mei describes the girl playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show as taking a fancy sweep of a curtsy so that the fluffy skirt of her “dress cascaded slowly to the floor like the petals of” what?

3. What refers to circular toys that are twirled around the waist, and that some of the children used at the talent show when Jing-Mei made her piano debut?

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

5. Edvard Grieg is considered one of the leading composers of what era?

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