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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jing-Mei is surprised after her “talent-show fiasco” that her mother did not do what?
(a) Ground her
(b) Weep
(c) Slap her
(d) Yell at her

2. Where does Jing-Mei find her exercise notes and secondhand music books at the end of the story?
(a) In a notebook in the basement
(b) In the piano bench
(c) In a box in the attic
(d) Under her mother’s bed

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

4. What is the name of Jing-Mei’s mother in “Two Kinds”?
(a) Suyuan Woo
(b) An-Mei Hsu
(c) Wu-Tsing Hsu
(d) Lindo Jong

5. What is the name of Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the story?
(a) An-Mei
(b) Waverly
(c) Betty
(d) Ying-Ying

Short Answer Questions

1. How old does Jing-Mei say she was when her mother told her “Of course you can be prodigy too” in the beginning of the story?

2. When Jing-Mei was helping her father get things in order after Jing-Mei’s mother died, she says she found “some old Chinese silk dresses, the kind with” what?

3. How long ago has Jing-Mei’s mother died when she sends the tuner to recondition the piano at the end of the story?

4. Where does Jing-Mei live while growing up?

5. 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?

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