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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 crash of bricks against a tin rooftop
(c) A solitary violin
(d) A chorus of birds singing in the treetops
2. How old is the little girl on The Ed Sullivan Show that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano?
(a) 3
(b) 9
(c) 16
(d) 12
3. “Two Kinds” is a short story from Amy Tan’s book The Joy Luck Club. This collection of short stories revolves around the lives of Chinese immigrant women who form a club and play what game?
(a) Chess
(b) Chinese checkers
(c) Mah-jongg
(d) Bridge
4. Jing-Mei says that Mr. Chong would have her curve her hand around what object and then keep that shape while playing chords?
(a) An apple
(b) A potato
(c) A penny
(d) A rope
5. Edvard Grieg is considered one of the leading composers of what era?
(a) The Modernist era
(b) The Romantic era
(c) The Surrealist era
(d) The Postmodernist era
Short Answer Questions
1. When Jing-Mei’s mother asks her for the capital of Finland, Jing-Mei responds with the capital of what country in the beginning of the story?
2. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons with him as “very strange, always tapping his fingers to the silent music of” what?
3. While watching the young piano prodigy on The Ed Sullivan Show with her mother, Jing-Mei says, “In spite of these warning signs, I wasn’t worried.” Why was Jing-Mei not concerned?
4. Jing-Mei says of Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons that “he must have been younger than I thought, since he” what?
5. After Jing-Mei’s hair debacle where it was cut off like a boy’s, what statement does she make about her feelings of the haircut?
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