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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 describes the girl playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show as having the sauciness of whom?
(a) John Wayne
(b) Little Orphan Annie
(c) Peter Pan
(d) Shirley Temple

2. What does Jing-Mei respond to her mother on the phone when her mother offers her the piano for her birthday and says, “You could been genius if you wanted to”?
(a) I love you
(b) I wish I’d known then
(c) No I couldn’t
(d) Yes, I know

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

4. What does Jing-Mei say she put her mother’s jewelry in after her death at the end of the story?
(a) A box made of tin
(b) A post office box
(c) A bank vault
(d) Special silk pouches

5. How does Jing-Mei describe her school achievements in “Two Kinds”?
(a) I flunked every class twice
(b) I got straight A’s
(c) I didn’t get straight A’s
(d) I skipped two grades

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Shirley Temple born?

2. What is Auntie Lindo’s last name in the story?

3. What is the name of Jing-Mei’s mother in “Two Kinds”?

4. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of the story that at first her mother thought she could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. “We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were” what?

5. Jing-Mei says that as a child “sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient.” What did Jing-Mei’s inner prodigy tell her at this time?

(see the answer key)

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