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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When Jing-Mei refuses to practice piano after the talent show, she tells her mother, “Why should I? I’m not” what?
(a) Your daughter
(b) A genius
(c) You
(d) Talented
2. Jing-Mei describes her mother having given her a Bible page to study and then report everything she could remember when she was a child. What does Jing-Mei tell her mother is all she can recall from the passage?
(a) Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance
(b) And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose
(c) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
(d) For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith
3. The little girl that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show is said to have what kind of haircut?
(a) A Shirley Temple haircut
(b) A Barbie Doll haircut
(c) A Raggedy Anne haircut
(d) A Peter Pan haircut
4. What does the piano symbolize in “Two Kinds”?
(a) Jing-Mei’s love for her father
(b) Jing-Mei’s belief in a higher spiritual being
(c) Jing-Mei’s longing for cultural resonance
(d) Jing-Mei’s mother’s ambitions for her
5. By what name does Jing-Mei refer to Mr. Chong’s mother as in the story?
(a) Witch Chong
(b) Old Lady Chong
(c) Beverly Chong
(d) The Wolf
Short Answer Questions
1. What musical term from the story refers to a composition for one or two instruments, typically comprised of three or four movements in contrasting forms and keys?
2. Of her lack of ambitions in music, Jing-Mei says “I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant” what?
3. Describing her mother’s reaction to her hurtful words, Jing-Mei says, “she backed out of the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like” what?
4. How does Jing-Mei describe Auntie Lindo’s smile when she looks out at the audience before beginning her piano solo at the talent show?
5. Jing-Mei says that as a child “sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient.” What did Jing-Mei’s inner prodigy tell her at this time?
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