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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jing-Mei described her family’s kitchen table where she would sit after dinner with her mother during her childhood?
(a) Marble
(b) Formica
(c) Oak
(d) Plywood

2. Of the composition that the piano prodigy plays on The Ed Sullivan Show, Jing-Mei says, “I remember the song, because later on” what?
(a) I had that song played at my wedding
(b) I heard it again on the radio
(c) It was the song played at my mother’s funeral
(d) I had to learn how to play it

3. After Jing-Mei’s performance at the talent show, she says, “We could have escaped during intermission.” What does she say “must have anchored my parents to their chairs”?
(a) Pride and some strange sense of honor
(b) A love for music
(c) A desire to not be shown up by their neighbors
(d) A need to punish me further

4. 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?
(a) Abracadabra
(b) Voila
(c) Alakazam
(d) Kapow

5. What does Auntie Lindo’s daughter say matter-of-factly to Jing-Mei after her performance at the talent show?
(a) You should really be a singer
(b) You aren’t a genius like me
(c) You did a wonderful job
(d) You’re not as talented as you think you are

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei say she put the sweaters her mother knitted in after she died in the end of the story?

2. Where did Jing-Mei’s mother abandon her first children, hoping for them to become adopted?

3. How does Jing-Mei describe her mother’s first children in the beginning of the story?

4. Jing-Mei describes the fingers of Mr. Chong’s mother as feeling like what?

5. What is the name of the street that Jing-Mei’s family lives on when she is a child?

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