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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Chinese Exclusion Act signed into law?
(a) 1915
(b) 1948
(c) 1882
(d) 1862

2. 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) Pleading Child
(c) Peter’s Waltz
(d) Anita’s Dance

3. How does Jing-Mei describe her mother’s first children in the beginning of the story?
(a) Three sons
(b) Twin baby girls
(c) A boy and a girl
(d) Twin baby boys

4. 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?
(a) The queen of hearts
(b) The ace of diamonds
(c) The joker card
(d) The five of spades

5. What is Auntie Lindo’s husband’s name?
(a) Uncle Lee
(b) Uncle Wu
(c) Uncle Tom
(d) Uncle Tin

Short Answer Questions

1. What complaint does Jing-Mei’s mother make about the young piano prodigy that she watches on The Ed Sullivan Show?

2. What musical term from the story means pertaining to the lowest part in harmonic music?

3. Jing-Mei’s mother tells her when Jing-Mei resists taking piano lessons, “Who ask you be genius? Only ask you be” what?

4. After Jing-Mei’s mother tells her that she has enrolled her in piano lessons, Jing-Mei says, “When my mother told me this, I felt as though I had been” what?

5. What word does Jing-Mei use to describe Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the narrative?

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