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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Of her first lessons with Mr. Chong, Jing-Mei says, “I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord and then I just played some nonsense that sounded like” what?
(a) A cat running up and down on top of garbage cans
(b) A chorus of birds singing in the treetops
(c) A solitary violin
(d) A crash of bricks against a tin rooftop
2. Jing-Mei’s mother tells her when Jing-Mei resists taking piano lessons, “Who ask you be genius? Only ask you be” what?
(a) Your best
(b) Passionate
(c) Prodigy
(d) Responsible
3. Who does Jing-Mei tell her mother she wishes she were like as they argue about piano practice after the talent show?
(a) Her first husband
(b) Her distant cousins
(c) Her “dead” daughters
(d) Her great-grandmother
4. Jing-Mei says to her mother as they argue over piano practice after the talent show, “I’ll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!” Her mother responds, “Only two kinds of daughters.” What are these two kinds?
(a) Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind
(b) Those who are respectful and those who are ungrateful
(c) Those who carry their name with pride and those who don’t
(d) Those who marry young and those who are old widows
5. How does Jing-Mei’s mother respond when Jing-Mei throws a fit when she’s told she’ll be taking piano lessons?
(a) She slaps her
(b) She laughs at her
(c) She weeps
(d) She calls her father
Short Answer Questions
1. Jing-Mei describes the sound of the “bellows of the foghorns out on the bay” as sounding like what?
2. What does Jing-Mei say Mr. Chong would balance on her wrists as she practiced piano so that she would keep them still?
3. What is Auntie Lindo’s last name in the story?
4. When Jing-Mei and her mother get into an argument about Jing-Mei beginning piano lessons, Jing-Mei’s mother exclaims, “If she had as much talent as she has temper, she would be” what?
5. “Two Kinds” is a short story that was initially published in what periodical in February 1989?
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