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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary term refers to a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, idea, setting, or object?
(a) Vignette
(b) Entrenchment
(c) Parable
(d) Prelude

2. Of Auntie Lindo’s daughter, Jing-Mei says “We had grown up together and shared all the closeness of two sisters squabbling over crayons and dolls. In other words, for the most part, we” what?
(a) Envied each other
(b) Loved each other
(c) Pestered each other
(d) Hated each other

3. Jing-Mei says that soon after her mother got the idea for her to be a Chinese Shirley Temple, she took her to a beauty school in what district?
(a) The Mission district
(b) Potrero Hill
(c) Noe Valley
(d) SoHo

4. At the end of the story, Jing-Mei says, “After I had the piano tuned, I opened the lid and touched the keys.” How does she say it sounded?
(a) It sounded softer and more brittle than I remembered
(b) It sounded like there was a dying cat inside
(c) It sounded even richer than I remembered
(d) It sounded like my mother’s voice

5. When was Shirley Temple born?
(a) 1937
(b) 1959
(c) 1928
(d) 1911

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her on the phone that she has when offering her the piano for her birthday?

2. The Magnuson Act was passed in the year that China became what?

3. How does Jing-Mei’s mother respond when Jing-Mei throws a fit when she’s told she’ll be taking piano lessons?

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

5. After Jing-Mei’s hair debacle where it was cut off like a boy’s, what statement does she make about her feelings of the haircut?

(see the answer key)

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