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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Sad
(b) Angry
(c) Proud
(d) Ashamed

2. How does Jing-Mei described her family’s kitchen table where she would sit after dinner with her mother during her childhood?
(a) Oak
(b) Marble
(c) Plywood
(d) Formica

3. What is the name of the song that Jing-Mei finds next to the Schumann piece she played for the talent show at the end of the story?
(a) Pleading Child
(b) Peter’s Waltz
(c) Anita’s Dance
(d) Perfectly Contented

4. How does Jing-Mei describe her school achievements in “Two Kinds”?
(a) I skipped two grades
(b) I didn’t get straight A’s
(c) I got straight A’s
(d) I flunked every class twice

5. How do Jing-Mei and her parents travel home after the talent show?
(a) By taxi
(b) By limousine
(c) By train
(d) By bus

Short Answer Questions

1. “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?

2. How many days after the talent show is it when Jing-Mei is surprised that her mother insists she practice piano?

3. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of the story that at first her mother thought she could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. “We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were” what?

4. What word from the story means coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited?

5. As Jing-Mei sits down to begin her piano solo at the talent show, she envisions whom rushing up to introduce her to everyone on TV?

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