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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of her mother’s ambitions and her own as a child, Jing-Mei says, “I was like the Christ child lifted out of the straw manger, crying with” what?
(a) Holy agony
(b) Judicious rage
(c) Bitter contempt
(d) Holy indignity

2. Who founded the Ripley’s Believe It or Not franchise?
(a) Robert Ripley
(b) James Ripley
(c) Alexander Ripley
(d) George Ripley

3. What is the nickname that Auntie Lindo’s daughter is known by in the area where Jing-Mei grows up?
(a) Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Checkers Champion
(b) Chinatown’s Littlest “Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Mah-jongg Champion
(c) Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Chess Champion
(d) Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Swimming Star

4. What word does Jing-Mei use to describe Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the narrative?
(a) Gracious
(b) Snotty
(c) Humble
(d) Voluptuous

5. Where does Jing-Mei live while growing up?
(a) San Francisco, California
(b) Sacramento, California
(c) Los Angeles, California
(d) Oakland, California

Short Answer Questions

1. What composition does the piano prodigy play by Edvard Grieg on The Ed Sullivan Show as Jing-Mei and her mother watch?

2. Jing-Mei’s mother tells her when Jing-Mei resists taking piano lessons, “Who ask you be genius? Only ask you be” what?

3. How does Jing-Mei say she felt when her time to perform her piano solo at the talent show came?

4. 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?

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

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