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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Beethoven
(b) Berlioz
(c) Mozart
(d) Chopin

2. What word from the story mean to find fault in, blame, or censure?
(a) Adulterate
(b) Confiscate
(c) Reproach
(d) Tolerate

3. 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 Tsings, the Lees and the Hsus
(b) The Yus, the Tsings, and the Lees
(c) The Woos, the Lees, and the Wilsons
(d) The Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs

4. 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?
(a) Holy indignity
(b) Judicious rage
(c) Holy agony
(d) Bitter contempt

5. Who founded the Ripley’s Believe It or Not franchise?
(a) Robert Ripley
(b) George Ripley
(c) James Ripley
(d) Alexander Ripley

Short Answer Questions

1. What color dress does Jing-Mei wear for her piano debut at the talent show?

2. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kinds” is related from what perspective?

3. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong’s mother as having a particular smell about her of what?

4. When the instructor of the beauty school has to cut off Jing-Mei’s hair because of the bad perm, she tells Jing-Mei’s mother that what play is very popular these days?

5. What does Jing-Mei’s mother trade with Mr. Chong so that Jing-Mei may take piano lessons from him?

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