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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How old does Jing-Mei say she was when her mother told her “Of course you can be prodigy too” in the beginning of the story?
(a) 9
(b) 3
(c) 7
(d) 5
2. 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?
(a) I liked the haircut and felt like I would now no longer be bullied in school
(b) I liked the haircut and it made me actually look forward to my future fame
(c) I thought the haircut made me look like a villain from a Disney movie
(d) I hated the haircut and it made me feel like I would never live up to my mother’s expectations
3. When Jing-Mei refuses to practice piano after the talent show, she tells her mother, “Why should I? I’m not” what?
(a) Your daughter
(b) A genius
(c) You
(d) Talented
4. How does Jing-Mei say her academic career ended in “Two Kinds”?
(a) She earned a law degree
(b) She earned a bachelor’s degree
(c) She dropped out of college
(d) She earned a master’s degree
5. Where does Jing-Mei find her exercise notes and secondhand music books at the end of the story?
(a) In the piano bench
(b) Under her mother’s bed
(c) In a box in the attic
(d) In a notebook in the basement
Short Answer Questions
1. Jing-Mei describes the fingers of Mr. Chong’s mother as feeling like what?
2. In what year did the film Bright Eyes bring Shirley Temple international fame?
3. What complaint does Jing-Mei’s mother make about the young piano prodigy that she watches on The Ed Sullivan Show?
4. How long ago does Jing-Mei say she sent a tuner to her parents’ apartment to recondition the piano at the end of the story?
5. Of her childhood and the ambitions that Jing-Mei and her mother felt for her at this time, she says in the beginning of the story, “In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become” what?
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