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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Examine the following sentence from the narrative: “I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the right track.” What literary device is used in this example?
(a) Jargon
(b) Onomatopoeia
(c) Simile
(d) Metaphor

2. What word does Jing-Mei use in describing Mr. Chong’s silent instrumental compositions with a vague and dreamy character?
(a) Trill
(b) Staccato
(c) Reverie
(d) Arpeggio

3. What is the name of the Schumann piece that Jing-Mei is to play at the talent show?
(a) Peter’s Waltz
(b) Pleading Child
(c) Perfectly Contended
(d) Anita's Dance

4. What does Mr. Chong live in relation to Jing-Mei’s family when she’s growing up?
(a) On the top floor of the apartment building
(b) On the first floor of the apartment building
(c) Next door to Jing-Mei’s apartment on the second floor
(d) In the basement of the apartment building

5. Edvard Grieg is considered one of the leading composers of what era?
(a) The Surrealist era
(b) The Postmodernist era
(c) The Modernist era
(d) The Romantic era

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the narrative means under a magical trance?

2. Jing-Mei says that during her childhood, the tests her mother gave her “got harder—multiplying numbers in my head, finding” what card in a deck of cards?

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

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

5. What is the nickname that Auntie Lindo’s daughter is known by in the area where Jing-Mei grows up?

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