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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jing-Mei describes the fingers of Mr. Chong’s mother as feeling like what?
(a) The inside of an oyster
(b) A dead person’s
(c) A jellyfish
(d) A fat baby’s

2. 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 liked the haircut and it made me actually look forward to my future fame
(b) I liked the haircut and felt like I would now no longer be bullied in school
(c) I thought the haircut made me look like a villain from a Disney movie
(d) I hated the haircut and it made me feel like I would never live up to my mother’s expectations

3. How does Jing-Mei describe her school achievements in “Two Kinds”?
(a) I flunked every class twice
(b) I got straight A’s
(c) I didn’t get straight A’s
(d) I skipped two grades

4. 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?
(a) Perfectly Contented
(b) Peter’s Waltz
(c) Pleading Child
(d) Anita’s Dance

5. Who does Jing-Mei tell her mother she wishes she were like as they argue about piano practice after the talent show?
(a) Her great-grandmother
(b) Her “dead” daughters
(c) Her first husband
(d) Her distant cousins

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei says that during her childhood, the tests her mother gave her “got harder—multiplying numbers in my head, finding” what card in a deck of cards?

2. When does Jing-Mei say her mother came to America?

3. What is Jing-Mei’s last name in the story?

4. What does Jing-Mei say she put the sweaters her mother knitted in after she died in the end of the story?

5. Jing-Mei describes sitting down nightly with her mother to examine stories of child prodigies when she was a child. The first of these stories is about a boy who knows all the state capitals and most of the European countries at what age?

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