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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What color dress does Jing-Mei describe the girl wearing that she watches playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show with her mother?
(a) Blue
(b) White
(c) Yellow
(d) Green
2. After Jing-Mei’s hair debacle where it was cut off like a boy’s, what statement does she make about her feelings of the haircut?
(a) I thought the haircut made me look like a villain from a Disney movie
(b) I hated the haircut and it made me feel like I would never live up to my mother’s expectations
(c) I liked the haircut and it made me actually look forward to my future fame
(d) I liked the haircut and felt like I would now no longer be bullied in school
3. 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
4. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her she looks like after she’s been given a bad perm at the beauty school?
(a) An orphan
(b) Raggedy Anne
(c) A Cupie Doll
(d) Negro Chinese
5. When did the Japanese invasion of China take place, leading Jing-Mei’s mother to flee China?
(a) 1929
(b) 1911
(c) 1937
(d) 1943
Short Answer Questions
1. One of the tests that Jing-Mei’s mother gave her as she attempted to lure out the prodigy in her daughter was predicting the daily temperatures in what three cities?
2. Of her childhood and the ambitions that Jing-Mei and her mother felt for her at this time, she says in the beginning of the story, “In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become” what?
3. For how long does Jing-Mei say she practiced piano with Mr. Chong before she overheard her mother and Auntie Lindo bragging about their children?
4. What is the name of the street that Jing-Mei’s family lives on when she is a child?
5. How long ago does Jing-Mei say she sent a tuner to her parents’ apartment to recondition the piano at the end of the story?
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