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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of the composition that the piano prodigy plays on The Ed Sullivan Show, Jing-Mei says, “I remember the song, because later on” what?
(a) It was the song played at my mother’s funeral
(b) I had that song played at my wedding
(c) I had to learn how to play it
(d) I heard it again on the radio

2. “Two Kinds” is a short story that was initially published in what periodical in February 1989?
(a) Reader’s Digest
(b) The San Franciscan
(c) The New Yorker
(d) The Atlantic

3. What does the phrase “Ni kan” translate to, according to the narrator?
(a) Call me
(b) You watch
(c) Go outside
(d) Listen closely

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

5. How old is the boy at the talent show that is described as wearing a fake moustache and doing a magic show?
(a) 12
(b) 18
(c) 16
(d) 10

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jing-Mei say she felt when her time to perform her piano solo at the talent show came?

2. What is Jing-Mei’s last name in the story?

3. Where did Jing-Mei’s mother abandon her first children, hoping for them to become adopted?

4. Jing-Mei says that Mr. Chong would have her curve her hand around what object and then keep that shape while playing chords?

5. Jing-Mei describes her childhood ambitions in the beginning of the story by comparing herself to “Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with” what type of music “filling the air”?

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