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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’s father do as they travel home after the talent show?
(a) He hums
(b) He slaps Jing-Mei
(c) He silently weeps
(d) He apologizes

2. 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?
(a) A paper sack, dull and soiled
(b) A wisp of hair, broken and abandoned
(c) A dandelion in the autumn sunset
(d) A small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless

3. 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?
(a) 5
(b) 3
(c) 7
(d) 9

4. 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?
(a) Golden silk thread
(b) Gathers in the sleeves
(c) Little slits up the sides
(d) Hand-sewn little pockets

5. How many sons does Auntie Lindo have in the story?
(a) 3
(b) 2
(c) 4
(d) 1

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei says that soon after her mother got the idea for her to be a Chinese Shirley Temple, she took her to a beauty school in what district?

2. When Jing-Mei has a revelation while staring at herself in the bathroom mirror as a child, she says, “I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts willed with lots of” what?

3. What answer does Jing-Mei give when her mother asks her early in the story, “What’s the capital of Finland?”

4. Of Auntie Lindo’s daughter, Jing-Mei says “We had grown up together and shared all the closeness of two sisters squabbling over crayons and dolls. In other words, for the most part, we” what?

5. What complaint does Jing-Mei’s mother make about the young piano prodigy that she watches on The Ed Sullivan Show?

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