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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Jing-Mei argues with her mother over piano practice after the talent show, she says, “As I said these things I got scared. I felt like” what were “crawling out of my chest”?
(a) Demons and beasts and dragons
(b) The living dead and all my past
(c) Phantoms and ghosts and darkness
(d) Worms and toads and slimy things

2. What does the piano symbolize in “Two Kinds”?
(a) Jing-Mei’s mother’s ambitions for her
(b) Jing-Mei’s longing for cultural resonance
(c) Jing-Mei’s love for her father
(d) Jing-Mei’s belief in a higher spiritual being

3. Who does Jing-Mei tell her mother she wishes she were like as they argue about piano practice after the talent show?
(a) Her distant cousins
(b) Her “dead” daughters
(c) Her first husband
(d) Her great-grandmother

4. 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 large orchid
(b) A giant rose
(c) A giant daisy
(d) A large carnation

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Shirley Temple born?

2. “Two Kinds” is a short story from Amy Tan’s book The Joy Luck Club. This collection of short stories revolves around the lives of Chinese immigrant women who form a club and play what game?

3. Jing-Mei describes her mother having given her a Bible page to study and then report everything she could remember when she was a child. What does Jing-Mei tell her mother is all she can recall from the passage?

4. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her she looks like after she’s been given a bad perm at the beauty school?

5. Jing-Mei is to play a song from what Schumann opus at the talent show?

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