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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her on the phone that she has when offering her the piano for her birthday?
(a) Natural talent
(b) Lots of money
(c) Children who might want to learn
(d) Practiced skill
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?
(a) Mah-jongg
(b) Chess
(c) Bridge
(d) Chinese checkers
3. 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) Guys and Dolls
(b) Peter Pan
(c) Little Orphan Annie
(d) Cinderella
4. How many hours a day does Jing-Mei have access to the piano at Mr. Chong’s for practice when she first begins taking lessons?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 3
(d) 1
5. What does Jing-Mei realize about the song she finds next to the one she played for the talent show at the end of the story?
(a) It is composed by her mother
(b) It is the second half of the same song
(c) It is the opposite of the previous song
(d) It is composed by Mr. Chong
Short Answer Questions
1. As Jing-Mei walks back to her seat after her performance in the talent show, she overhears a little boy say to his mother, “That was awful.” What does the boy’s mother reply?
2. What does Jing-Mei say she put her mother’s jewelry in after her death at the end of the story?
3. Where did Jing-Mei’s mother abandon her first children, hoping for them to become adopted?
4. Who is the only person applauding when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsy at the talent show?
5. How does Jing-Mei describe the secondhand piano that her parents bought for her?
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