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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of Auntie Lindo, Jing-Mei’s mother says in the beginning of the story, “Her daughter, she is only best” what?
(a) Student
(b) At trying
(c) Chess champion
(d) Tricky

2. When was author Amy Tan born?
(a) 1952
(b) 1965
(c) 1940
(d) 1911

3. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kinds” is related from what perspective?
(a) Second-person
(b) First-person
(c) Third-person
(d) Fourth-person

4. What “magic word” as in conjuring does Jing-Mei use to describe the effect of her having said hurtful things to her mother during their fight about piano practice?
(a) Voila
(b) Abracadabra
(c) Alakazam
(d) Kapow

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Magnuson Act was passed in the year that China became what?

2. When does Jing-Mei say her mother came to America?

3. What word does Jing-Mei use to describe Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the narrative?

4. Jing-Mei is surprised after her “talent-show fiasco” that her mother did not do what?

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

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