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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of the story that at first her mother thought she could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. “We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were” what?
(a) Educational television
(b) Training films
(c) Golden cinema
(d) Horror movies

2. What word from the story mean to find fault in, blame, or censure?
(a) Tolerate
(b) Adulterate
(c) Confiscate
(d) Reproach

3. What is the name of Jing-Mei’s mother in “Two Kinds”?
(a) Lindo Jong
(b) Wu-Tsing Hsu
(c) An-Mei Hsu
(d) Suyuan Woo

4. Where does Jing-Mei find her exercise notes and secondhand music books at the end of the story?
(a) Under her mother’s bed
(b) In a box in the attic
(c) In a notebook in the basement
(d) In the piano bench

5. Of Auntie Lindo’s daughter, Jing-Mei says “We had grown up together and shared all the closeness of two sisters squabbling over crayons and dolls. In other words, for the most part, we” what?
(a) Envied each other
(b) Loved each other
(c) Pestered each other
(d) Hated each other

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Jing-Mei described her family’s kitchen table where she would sit after dinner with her mother during her childhood?

3. “Two Kinds” is a short story that was initially published in what periodical in February 1989?

4. When Jing-Mei and her mother get into an argument about Jing-Mei beginning piano lessons, Jing-Mei’s mother exclaims, “If she had as much talent as she has temper, she would be” what?

5. What does Mr. Chong live in relation to Jing-Mei’s family when she’s growing up?

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