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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Jing-Mei describe the look on her mother’s face when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsey after her piano solo in the talent show?
(a) Proud
(b) Confused
(c) Joyful
(d) Stricken

3. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kinds” is related from what perspective?
(a) Second-person
(b) First-person
(c) Fourth-person
(d) Third-person

4. How does Jing-Mei described her family’s kitchen table where she would sit after dinner with her mother during her childhood?
(a) Oak
(b) Plywood
(c) Formica
(d) Marble

5. What is Jing-Mei’s last name in the story?
(a) Woo
(b) Jong
(c) Hsu
(d) Chong

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei say she never really did while she practiced for her talent show?

2. Jing-Mei says that as a child “sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient.” What did Jing-Mei’s inner prodigy tell her at this time?

3. Jing-Mei soon learns after beginning her piano lessons with Mr. Chong that he is deaf. He compares himself to what composer, saying “We’re both listening only in our head”?

4. 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?

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

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