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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color dress does Jing-Mei describe the girl wearing that she watches playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show with her mother?
(a) Blue
(b) Green
(c) White
(d) Yellow

2. What is the neighborhood called where Jing-Mei’s family lives when she’s a child?
(a) Little Italy
(b) Nob Hill
(c) SoHo
(d) Chinatown

3. For how long does Jing-Mei say she practiced piano with Mr. Chong before she overheard her mother and Auntie Lindo bragging about their children?
(a) 5 months
(b) 4 weeks
(c) 2 years
(d) 1 year

4. What musical term from the story refers to a composition for one or two instruments, typically comprised of three or four movements in contrasting forms and keys?
(a) Bass
(b) Sonata
(c) Scale
(d) Treble

5. Examine the following sentence from the narrative: “I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the right track.” What literary device is used in this example?
(a) Jargon
(b) Simile
(c) Onomatopoeia
(d) Metaphor

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei’s father do as they travel home after the talent show?

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

3. Which of the following is a major theme throughout “Two Kinds”?

4. What musical term in the story refers to the sounding of notes in a chord in rapid succession instead of simultaneously?”

5. 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?

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