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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many hours a day does Jing-Mei have access to the piano at Mr. Chong’s for practice when she first begins taking lessons?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 1
(d) 4

2. As Jing-Mei walks back to her seat after her performance in the talent show, she overhears a little boy say to his mother, “That was awful.” What does the boy’s mother reply?
(a) Well, she certainly tried
(b) Shh. She’s right there
(c) She was terrible
(d) She was wonderful

3. 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) Metaphor
(d) Onomatopoeia

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?
(a) A giant rose
(b) A large orchid
(c) A large carnation
(d) A giant daisy

5. Where did author Amy Tan grow up?
(a) Oakland, California
(b) Chicago, Illinois
(c) New York, New York
(d) New Orleans, Louisiana

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is symbolized by the second song that Jing-Mei finds in her piano workbook at the end of the story?

3. What is Auntie Lindo’s last name in the story?

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

(see the answer key)

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