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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) No I couldn’t
(b) I wish I’d known then
(c) Yes, I know
(d) I love you

2. What college does Jing-Mei say she didn’t get into, causing more disappointment for her mother?
(a) Stanford
(b) Oxford
(c) Emerson
(d) Yale

3. What is the name of Jing-Mei’s mother in “Two Kinds”?
(a) Suyuan Woo
(b) An-Mei Hsu
(c) Lindo Jong
(d) Wu-Tsing Hsu

4. One of the tests that Jing-Mei’s mother gave her as she attempted to lure out the prodigy in her daughter was predicting the daily temperatures in what three cities?
(a) Los Angeles, New York, and London
(b) New York, Paris, and London
(c) Seattle, Minneapolis, and New York
(d) Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles

5. What color does Jing-Mei say her mother knitted sweaters in, which were also “all the colors I hated”?
(a) Green, blue, and yellow
(b) Yellow, pink, and orange
(c) Blue, red, and silver
(d) Red, white, and black

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sons does Auntie Lindo have in the story?

2. What does Jing-Mei kick under her feet as her mother drags her to the piano for practice after the talent show?

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

4. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story that she had never asked her mother about her hope, “And that even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most”. What is the question that so frightened Jing-Mei?

5. At what time does Jing-Mei have access to Mr. Chong’s piano for her daily practice sessions when she begins studying with him?

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