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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 taking a fancy sweep of a curtsy so that the fluffy skirt of her “dress cascaded slowly to the floor like the petals of” what?
(a) A giant rose
(b) A large orchid
(c) A giant daisy
(d) A large carnation

2. When the instructor of the beauty school has to cut off Jing-Mei’s hair because of the bad perm, she tells Jing-Mei’s mother that what play is very popular these days?
(a) Guys and Dolls
(b) Cinderella
(c) Little Orphan Annie
(d) Peter Pan

3. What does Jing-Mei’s mother do to earn money for the family when Jing-Mei is a child?
(a) She teaches English
(b) She cooks at a hotel
(c) She cleans houses
(d) She teaches piano

4. Jing-Mei soon learns after beginning her piano lessons with Mr. Chong that he is deaf. He compares himself to what composer, saying “We’re both listening only in our head”?
(a) Chopin
(b) Berlioz
(c) Mozart
(d) Beethoven

5. When Jing-Mei’s mother still lived in China, her husband was serving as an officer where?
(a) Shanghai
(b) Beijing
(c) Chongqing
(d) Guangzhou

Short Answer Questions

1. What college does Jing-Mei say she didn’t get into, causing more disappointment for her mother?

2. 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?

3. How does Jing-Mei say she felt every time she saw the piano in her parents’ living room at the end of the story?

4. Jing-Mei describes the sound of the “bellows of the foghorns out on the bay” as sounding like what?

5. Jing-Mei says to her mother as they argue over piano practice after the talent show, “I’ll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!” Her mother responds, “Only two kinds of daughters.” What are these two kinds?

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