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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 say she put the sweaters her mother knitted in after she died in the end of the story?
(a) A wooden chest
(b) Moth-proof boxes
(c) A garbage bag
(d) An air-tight bag

2. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story that “unlike my mother, I did not believe I could” what?
(a) Overcome my heritage
(b) Be free
(c) Be anything I wanted to be
(d) Be talented or worthy

3. 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 Mr. Chong
(b) It is composed by her mother
(c) It is the opposite of the previous song
(d) It is the second half of the same song

4. “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 Atlantic
(d) The New Yorker

5. How do Jing-Mei and her parents travel home after the talent show?
(a) By limousine
(b) By train
(c) By bus
(d) By taxi

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jing-Mei’s mother respond when Jing-Mei throws a fit when she’s told she’ll be taking piano lessons?

2. Of her first lessons with Mr. Chong, Jing-Mei says, “I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord and then I just played some nonsense that sounded like” what?

3. What does Jing-Mei say she mostly did do while she was practicing her music for the talent show?

4. Jing-Mei is to play a song from what Schumann opus at the talent show?

5. What nickname does Jing-Mei say she secretly gave Mr. Chong when she began taking piano lessons with him?

(see the answer key)

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