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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jing-Mei says that her mother offered to give her the piano for her birthday when she turned how old?
(a) 30
(b) 40
(c) 20
(d) 25

2. What does Jing-Mei say she put the sweaters her mother knitted in after she died in the end of the story?
(a) A garbage bag
(b) An air-tight bag
(c) Moth-proof boxes
(d) A wooden chest

3. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story of her mother that she had “never found a way to ask her why she had hoped for something so large that” what “was inevitable”?
(a) Revenge
(b) Failure
(c) Despair
(d) Sadness

4. Where does Jing-Mei live while growing up?
(a) Oakland, California
(b) Los Angeles, California
(c) Sacramento, California
(d) San Francisco, California

5. Where does Jing-Mei describe the piano as standing in her parents’ living room at the end of the story?
(a) In front of the television
(b) In front of the bay windows
(c) In front of the door to the kitchen
(d) In front of the staircase

Short Answer Questions

1. “Two Kinds” is a short story that was initially published in what periodical in February 1989?

2. What does Jing-Mei do with the Chinese silk dresses she finds when sorting through her mother’s things at the end of the story?

3. What musical term from Jing-Mei’s piano lessons means characterized by abruptness and disconnectedness?

4. What is the name of Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the story?

5. Of her lack of ambitions in music, Jing-Mei says “I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant” what?

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