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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What musical term from Jing-Mei’s piano lessons means characterized by abruptness and disconnectedness?
(a) Reverie
(b) Trill
(c) Arpeggio
(d) Staccato

2. What color does Jing-Mei say her mother knitted sweaters in, which were also “all the colors I hated”?
(a) Green, blue, and yellow
(b) Red, white, and black
(c) Blue, red, and silver
(d) Yellow, pink, and orange

3. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story that she had never asked her mother about her hope, “And that even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most”. What is the question that so frightened Jing-Mei?
(a) Why she wanted to hurt me
(b) Why she had given up hope
(c) Why she had believed in me
(d) Why she had left her children behind

4. “Two Kinds” is a short story that was initially published in what periodical in February 1989?
(a) The New Yorker
(b) The San Franciscan
(c) Reader’s Digest
(d) The Atlantic

5. Why does Jing-Mei say she sent a tuner to recondition the piano at her parents’ house?
(a) Because I planned to play it again
(b) Because I wanted to sell it
(c) Because I wanted to have it appraised
(d) For purely sentimental reasons

Short Answer Questions

1. Edvard Grieg was a composer and pianist from what country?

2. What does Jing-Mei say she put her mother’s jewelry in after her death at the end of the story?

3. When was Edvard Grieg born?

4. What is the name of Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the story?

5. During what years did The Ed Sullivan Show air on television?

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