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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei realize about the song she finds next to the one she played for the talent show at the end of the story?
(a) It is composed by her mother
(b) It is the opposite of the previous song
(c) It is the second half of the same song
(d) It is composed by Mr. Chong

2. What is the name of Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the story?
(a) Betty
(b) An-Mei
(c) Ying-Ying
(d) Waverly

3. What musical term from the story refers to a group of notes taken in ascending or descending order within the compass of one octave?
(a) Scale
(b) Treble
(c) Bass
(d) Sonata

4. What composition does the piano prodigy play by Edvard Grieg on The Ed Sullivan Show as Jing-Mei and her mother watch?
(a) Anita’s Dance
(b) Pleading Child
(c) Simon’s Waltz
(d) Perfectly Contended

5. Jing-Mei describes the sound of the “bellows of the foghorns out on the bay” as sounding like what?
(a) The sound of whales crying
(b) The bellows of a church horn
(c) The sound of my fury
(d) The cow jumping over the moon

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What “magic word” as in conjuring does Jing-Mei use to describe the effect of her having said hurtful things to her mother during their fight about piano practice?

4. When does Jing-Mei say her mother came to America?

5. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kind” is related in what tense?

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