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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary term refers to a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, idea, setting, or object?
(a) Parable
(b) Entrenchment
(c) Vignette
(d) Prelude

2. What illness did Jing-Mei’s mother contract while trying to flee China?
(a) Pneumonia
(b) Malaria
(c) Gangrene
(d) Dysentery

3. When Jing-Mei’s mother still lived in China, her husband was serving as an officer where?
(a) Beijing
(b) Shanghai
(c) Guangzhou
(d) Chongqing

4. 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?
(a) Two days ago
(b) A year ago
(c) A week ago
(d) A month ago

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of her mother’s ambitions and her own as a child, Jing-Mei says, “I was like the Christ child lifted out of the straw manger, crying with” what?

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 does the phrase “Ni kan” translate to, according to the narrator?

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

5. What is the nickname that Auntie Lindo’s daughter is known by in the area where Jing-Mei grows up?

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