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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the only person applauding when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsy at the talent show?
(a) Jing-Mei’s mother
(b) Jing-Mei’s father
(c) Auntie Lindo
(d) Mr. Chong

2. Jing-Mei describes the sound of the “bellows of the foghorns out on the bay” as sounding like what?
(a) The cow jumping over the moon
(b) The sound of my fury
(c) The sound of whales crying
(d) The bellows of a church horn

3. What U.S. President signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law?
(a) Chester A. Arthur
(b) Teddy Roosevelt
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt
(d) James McCarthy

4. How does Jing-Mei say she felt when her time to perform her piano solo at the talent show came?
(a) I was terrified
(b) I was scared, but hopeful
(c) I was worried
(d) I was very confident

5. What sensation does Jing-Mei describe as she begins hitting one wrong note after another during the talent show?
(a) A shiver of excitement started in my hands and spread up my arms
(b) A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down
(c) A burning sensation in my heart and then an inability to breathe
(d) I felt a wave of terror and then everything went black

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei respond to her mother on the phone when her mother offers her the piano for her birthday and says, “You could been genius if you wanted to”?

2. Describing her mother’s reaction to her hurtful words, Jing-Mei says, “she backed out of the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like” what?

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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