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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a major theme throughout “Two Kinds”?
(a) Sister-brother rivalry
(b) Mother-daughter relationships
(c) Father-daughter relationships
(d) Political corruption

2. What does Jing-Mei respond to her mother on the phone when her mother offers her the piano for her birthday and says, “You could been genius if you wanted to”?
(a) I wish I’d known then
(b) No I couldn’t
(c) I love you
(d) Yes, I know

3. 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) An air-tight bag
(d) A garbage bag

4. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of the story that at first her mother thought she could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. “We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were” what?
(a) Educational television
(b) Golden cinema
(c) Training films
(d) Horror movies

5. Where did author Amy Tan grow up?
(a) New York, New York
(b) New Orleans, Louisiana
(c) Chicago, Illinois
(d) Oakland, California

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei’s mother tells her when Jing-Mei resists taking piano lessons, “Who ask you be genius? Only ask you be” what?

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?

3. Who performs first at the talent show where Jing-Mei makes her piano debut?

4. Who does Jing-Mei tell her mother she wishes she were like as they argue about piano practice after the talent show?

5. While watching the young piano prodigy on The Ed Sullivan Show with her mother, Jing-Mei says, “In spite of these warning signs, I wasn’t worried.” Why was Jing-Mei not concerned?

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