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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind
(b) Those who are respectful and those who are ungrateful
(c) Those who carry their name with pride and those who don’t
(d) Those who marry young and those who are old widows

3. How long ago has Jing-Mei’s mother died when she sends the tuner to recondition the piano at the end of the story?
(a) A week ago
(b) A few years ago
(c) A year ago
(d) A few months ago

4. When was Edvard Grieg born?
(a) 1935
(b) 1919
(c) 1843
(d) 1798

5. Jing-Mei is surprised after her “talent-show fiasco” that her mother did not do what?
(a) Slap her
(b) Weep
(c) Ground her
(d) Yell at her

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Edvard Grieg was a composer and pianist from what country?

3. When Jing-Mei has a revelation while staring at herself in the bathroom mirror as a child, how does she describe the girl who is staring back at her?

4. During what years did The Ed Sullivan Show air on television?

5. Jing-Mei describes her childhood ambitions in the beginning of the story by comparing herself to “Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with” what type of music “filling the air”?

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