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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long does Jing-Mei say she practiced piano with Mr. Chong before she overheard her mother and Auntie Lindo bragging about their children?
(a) 2 years
(b) 5 months
(c) 1 year
(d) 4 weeks

2. How does Jing-Mei say she felt every time she saw the piano in her parents’ living room at the end of the story?
(a) Proud
(b) Sad
(c) Angry
(d) Ashamed

3. Jing-Mei says that as a child “sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient.” What did Jing-Mei’s inner prodigy tell her at this time?
(a) If I’m not on stage in a year, I’ll never get there
(b) I’m dying of boredom. When are we going to do something fun?
(c) Tell her to stop making you do this. This is taking forever
(d) If you don’t hurry up and get me out of here, I’m disappearing for good

4. What does Jing-Mei wear in her hair at the talent show?
(a) A pink bow
(b) A yellow bow
(c) A gold ribbon
(d) A silver crown

5. Of her lack of ambitions in music, Jing-Mei says “I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant” what?
(a) Hymns
(b) Soliloquies
(c) Waltzes
(d) Sonatas

Short Answer Questions

1. As Jing-Mei walks back to her seat after her performance in the talent show, she overhears a little boy say to his mother, “That was awful.” What does the boy’s mother reply?

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 similarity does Amy Tan share with Jing-Mei from “Two Kinds”?

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

5. How many days have passed since Jing-Mei and her mother watched The Ed Sullivan Show when Jing-Mei’s mother tells her that she will be taking piano lessons?

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