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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How old is the boy at the talent show that is described as wearing a fake moustache and doing a magic show?
(a) 12
(b) 18
(c) 16
(d) 10
2. When Jing-Mei argues with her mother over piano practice after the talent show, she says, “As I said these things I got scared. I felt like” what were “crawling out of my chest”?
(a) Phantoms and ghosts and darkness
(b) The living dead and all my past
(c) Demons and beasts and dragons
(d) Worms and toads and slimy things
3. 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?
(a) I liked the haircut and felt like I would now no longer be bullied in school
(b) I thought the haircut made me look like a villain from a Disney movie
(c) I liked the haircut and it made me actually look forward to my future fame
(d) I hated the haircut and it made me feel like I would never live up to my mother’s expectations
4. Jing-Mei describes her mother having given her a Bible page to study and then report everything she could remember when she was a child. What does Jing-Mei tell her mother is all she can recall from the passage?
(a) And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose
(b) Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance
(c) For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith
(d) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
5. What does the piano symbolize in “Two Kinds”?
(a) Jing-Mei’s longing for cultural resonance
(b) Jing-Mei’s love for her father
(c) Jing-Mei’s mother’s ambitions for her
(d) Jing-Mei’s belief in a higher spiritual being
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 is symbolized by the second song that Jing-Mei finds in her piano workbook at the end of the story?
3. In the 1993 film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, what actress played the role of Jing-Mei?
4. How old is the little girl on The Ed Sullivan Show that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano?
5. When did the Japanese invasion of China take place, leading Jing-Mei’s mother to flee China?
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