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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sensation does Jing-Mei describe as she begins hitting one wrong note after another during the talent show?
(a) A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down
(b) A shiver of excitement started in my hands and spread up my arms
(c) A burning sensation in my heart and then an inability to breathe
(d) I felt a wave of terror and then everything went black

2. When was Edvard Grieg born?
(a) 1798
(b) 1935
(c) 1843
(d) 1919

3. What similarity does Amy Tan share with Jing-Mei from “Two Kinds”?
(a) Her father was an Italian dentist
(b) Her brother went on to become a lawyer
(c) Her mother left behind children in China
(d) Her mother committed suicide when she was young

4. Jing-Mei soon learns after beginning her piano lessons with Mr. Chong that he is deaf. He compares himself to what composer, saying “We’re both listening only in our head”?
(a) Berlioz
(b) Beethoven
(c) Chopin
(d) Mozart

5. What color dress does Jing-Mei describe the girl wearing that she watches playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show with her mother?
(a) Blue
(b) Green
(c) White
(d) Yellow

Short Answer 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?

2. How many days after the talent show is it when Jing-Mei is surprised that her mother insists she practice piano?

3. Of her childhood and the ambitions that Jing-Mei and her mother felt for her at this time, she says in the beginning of the story, “In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become” what?

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

5. What does the piano symbolize in “Two Kinds”?

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