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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is symbolized by the second song that Jing-Mei finds in her piano workbook at the end of the story?
(a) The love she had for her father
(b) The inner peace she’s found in her life
(c) The inner anguish she suffered as a child
(d) Her mother’s ambitions for her

2. What does Jing-Mei do with the Chinese silk dresses she finds when sorting through her mother’s things at the end of the story?
(a) She sells them
(b) She takes them home with her
(c) She gives them to her sister
(d) She gives them to her father

3. Of Auntie Lindo, Jing-Mei’s mother says in the beginning of the story, “Her daughter, she is only best” what?
(a) Chess champion
(b) At trying
(c) Student
(d) Tricky

4. 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) Alakazam
(b) Voila
(c) Kapow
(d) Abracadabra

5. Jing-Mei says to her mother as they argue over piano practice after the talent show, “I’ll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!” Her mother responds, “Only two kinds of daughters.” What are these two kinds?
(a) Those who carry their name with pride and those who don’t
(b) Those who are respectful and those who are ungrateful
(c) Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind
(d) Those who marry young and those who are old widows

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only person applauding when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsy at the talent show?

2. Where did author Amy Tan grow up?

3. What word from the story mean to find fault in, blame, or censure?

4. What is Auntie Lindo’s husband’s name?

5. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons with him as “very strange, always tapping his fingers to the silent music of” what?

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