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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Jing-Mei stands up after playing her piano solo at the talent show, she realizes what are shaking?
(a) Her hands
(b) Her shoulders
(c) Her legs
(d) Her ribs

3. What does Jing-Mei say she mostly did do while she was practicing her music for the talent show?
(a) Daydreamed about being elsewhere
(b) Focused on the keys she was playing
(c) Practiced her scales and chords
(d) Listened to all the errors she made

4. Which of the following is a major theme throughout “Two Kinds”?
(a) Political corruption
(b) Mother-daughter relationships
(c) Sister-brother rivalry
(d) Father-daughter relationships

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What nickname does Jing-Mei say she secretly gave Mr. Chong when she began taking piano lessons with him?

3. What is Auntie Lindo’s husband’s name?

4. Jing-Mei describes the girl playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show as having the sauciness of whom?

5. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong’s mother as having a particular smell about her of what?

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