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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Cinderella
(b) Guys and Dolls
(c) Little Orphan Annie
(d) Peter Pan

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

3. What is Auntie Lindo’s husband’s name?
(a) Uncle Lee
(b) Uncle Tom
(c) Uncle Tin
(d) Uncle Wu

4. What does Jing-Mei say she never really did while she practiced for her talent show?
(a) Worry about how she looked while playing
(b) Listened to what she was playing
(c) Connect with the music that flowed through her
(d) Think about anything other than the music

5. How does Jing-Mei say she felt every time she saw the piano in her parents’ living room at the end of the story?
(a) Angry
(b) Proud
(c) Sad
(d) Ashamed

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a major theme throughout “Two Kinds”?

2. 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?

3. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her on the phone that she has when offering her the piano for her birthday?

4. What illness did Jing-Mei’s mother contract while trying to flee China?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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