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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the names of the families from the Joy Luck Club that come up to Jing-Mei’s mother and father after Jing-Mei’s performance at the talent show?
(a) The Woos, the Lees, and the Wilsons
(b) The Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs
(c) The Tsings, the Lees and the Hsus
(d) The Yus, the Tsings, and the Lees

2. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story of her mother that she had “never found a way to ask her why she had hoped for something so large that” what “was inevitable”?
(a) Sadness
(b) Failure
(c) Despair
(d) Revenge

3. What word from the story means coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited?
(a) Depreciatory
(b) Impertinent
(c) Nonchalant
(d) Fanatical

4. What does Jing-Mei’s mother trade with Mr. Chong so that Jing-Mei may take piano lessons from him?
(a) Medical advice
(b) Housecleaning services
(c) Dog-walking services
(d) Home-cooked meals

5. In what year did the film Bright Eyes bring Shirley Temple international fame?
(a) 1948
(b) 1934
(c) 1959
(d) 1951

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Jing-Mei says that during her childhood, the tests her mother gave her “got harder—multiplying numbers in my head, finding” what card in a deck of cards?

3. Auntie Lindo tells Jing-Mei’s mother that all day long she has no time to do anything but what, when she is bragging about her daughter?

4. Edvard Grieg was a composer and pianist from what country?

5. Jing-Mei says of Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons that “he must have been younger than I thought, since he” what?

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