1. Where does Jing-Mei live while growing up?
(a) Los Angeles, California
(b) Oakland, California
(c) Sacramento, California
(d) San Francisco, California

2. What word does Jing-Mei use to describe Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the narrative?
(a) Snotty
(b) Voluptuous
(c) Humble
(d) Gracious

3. When Jing-Mei’s mother asks her for the capital of Finland, Jing-Mei responds with the capital of what country in the beginning of the story?
(a) Australia
(b) Great Britain
(c) Kenya
(d) France

4. What is Jing-Mei doing on the day when her mother insists she go practice at the piano after the talent show fiasco?
(a) Calling a friend
(b) Listening to the radio
(c) Watching TV
(d) Writing in her journal

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei respond to her mother on the phone when her mother offers her the piano for her birthday and says, “You could been genius if you wanted to”?

2. How does Jing-Mei describe her school achievements in “Two Kinds”?

3. Jing-Mei says of Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons that “he must have been younger than I thought, since he” what?

4. When was the Chinese Exclusion Act signed into law?

5. How long ago does Jing-Mei say she sent a tuner to her parents’ apartment to recondition the piano at the end of the story?

(see the answer key)

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