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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did author Amy Tan grow up?
(a) Chicago, Illinois
(b) Oakland, California
(c) New Orleans, Louisiana
(d) New York, New York

2. How does Jing-Mei describe the look on her mother’s face when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsey after her piano solo in the talent show?
(a) Joyful
(b) Proud
(c) Stricken
(d) Confused

3. What musical term from the story refers to a group of notes taken in ascending or descending order within the compass of one octave?
(a) Bass
(b) Scale
(c) Treble
(d) Sonata

4. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of “Two Kinds,” “My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. You could open” what?
(a) A factory
(b) A restaurant
(c) A clothing store
(d) A hair salon

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei says that soon after her mother got the idea for her to be a Chinese Shirley Temple, she took her to a beauty school in what district?

2. How long ago does Jing-Mei say she sent a tuner to her parents’ apartment to recondition the piano at the end of the story?

3. What musical term in the story refers to the sounding of notes in a chord in rapid succession instead of simultaneously?”

4. In the 1993 film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, what actress played the role of Jing-Mei?

5. What does Jing-Mei’s mother trade with Mr. Chong so that Jing-Mei may take piano lessons from him?

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