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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’s mother asks her for the capital of Finland, Jing-Mei responds with the capital of what country in the beginning of the story?
(a) Kenya
(b) Great Britain
(c) Australia
(d) France
2. What does Jing-Mei’s mother do to earn money for the family when Jing-Mei is a child?
(a) She teaches English
(b) She cleans houses
(c) She cooks at a hotel
(d) She teaches piano
3. For how long does Jing-Mei say she practiced piano with Mr. Chong before she overheard her mother and Auntie Lindo bragging about their children?
(a) 5 months
(b) 4 weeks
(c) 2 years
(d) 1 year
4. When Jing-Mei’s mother enrolls her in piano lessons, Jing-Mei says, “I can’t play the piano. And even if I could, I wouldn’t” what?
(a) Play for you
(b) Take lessons from Mr. Chong
(c) Go on TV if you paid me a million dollars
(d) Be able to play it well enough for your expectations
5. What color does Jing-Mei say her mother knitted sweaters in, which were also “all the colors I hated”?
(a) Yellow, pink, and orange
(b) Blue, red, and silver
(c) Red, white, and black
(d) Green, blue, and yellow
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. In the 1993 film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, what actress played the role of Jing-Mei?
3. Jing-Mei says of Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons that “he must have been younger than I thought, since he” what?
4. Jing-Mei soon learns after beginning her piano lessons with Mr. Chong that he is deaf. He compares himself to what composer, saying “We’re both listening only in our head”?
5. Jing-Mei describes the sound of the “bellows of the foghorns out on the bay” as sounding like what?
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