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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 has a revelation while staring at herself in the bathroom mirror as a child, she says, “I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts willed with lots of” what?
(a) Hates
(b) Can’ts
(c) Don’ts
(d) Won’ts

2. What does Jing-Mei wear in her hair at the talent show?
(a) A pink bow
(b) A silver crown
(c) A yellow bow
(d) A gold ribbon

3. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story of her mother that she had “never found a way to ask her why she had hoped for something so large that” what “was inevitable”?
(a) Failure
(b) Despair
(c) Revenge
(d) Sadness

4. When was author Amy Tan born?
(a) 1965
(b) 1911
(c) 1952
(d) 1940

5. What “magic word” as in conjuring does Jing-Mei use to describe the effect of her having said hurtful things to her mother during their fight about piano practice?
(a) Voila
(b) Abracadabra
(c) Alakazam
(d) Kapow

Short Answer Questions

1. From what opera does Jing-Mei describe the “breasted girl with white makeup” singing from at the talent show?

2. How does Jing-Mei describe her family’s television at the time when her mother watched The Ed Sullivan Show?

3. What word from the narrative means under a magical trance?

4. What sensation does Jing-Mei describe as she begins hitting one wrong note after another during the talent show?

5. Why does Jing-Mei say she sent a tuner to recondition the piano at her parents’ house?

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