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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’s father do as they travel home after the talent show?
(a) He hums
(b) He apologizes
(c) He slaps Jing-Mei
(d) He silently weeps

2. Who is the only person applauding when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsy at the talent show?
(a) Jing-Mei’s mother
(b) Mr. Chong
(c) Auntie Lindo
(d) Jing-Mei’s father

3. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of “Two Kinds,” “My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. You could open” what?
(a) A factory
(b) A clothing store
(c) A hair salon
(d) A restaurant

4. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kinds” is related from what perspective?
(a) Second-person
(b) Fourth-person
(c) First-person
(d) Third-person

5. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons with him as “very strange, always tapping his fingers to the silent music of” what?
(a) An invisible orchestra
(b) His wife’s heartbeat
(c) An era long passed
(d) An imaginary guitar

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Auntie Lindo’s husband’s name?

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?

4. 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?

5. Of her mother’s ambitions and her own as a child, Jing-Mei says, “I was like the Christ child lifted out of the straw manger, crying with” what?

(see the answer key)

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