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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kind” is related in what tense?
(a) Past tense
(b) Future-possessive tense
(c) Future tense
(d) Present tense

2. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story of her mother that she had “never found a way to ask her why she had hoped for something so large that” what “was inevitable”?
(a) Sadness
(b) Revenge
(c) Despair
(d) Failure

3. 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?
(a) Holy agony
(b) Bitter contempt
(c) Holy indignity
(d) Judicious rage

4. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her on the phone that she has when offering her the piano for her birthday?
(a) Practiced skill
(b) Natural talent
(c) Children who might want to learn
(d) Lots of money

5. 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) 4
(b) 1
(c) 3
(d) 2

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei says of Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons that “he must have been younger than I thought, since he” what?

2. Edvard Grieg is considered one of the leading composers of what era?

3. What does Jing-Mei say she put the sweaters her mother knitted in after she died in the end of the story?

4. What word from the story means to play music with a vibratory or quavering effect?

5. Edvard Grieg was a composer and pianist from what country?

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