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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Jing-Mei tell her mother she wishes she were like as they argue about piano practice after the talent show?
(a) Her “dead” daughters
(b) Her first husband
(c) Her great-grandmother
(d) Her distant cousins

2. How does Jing-Mei describe her school achievements in “Two Kinds”?
(a) I skipped two grades
(b) I got straight A’s
(c) I didn’t get straight A’s
(d) I flunked every class twice

3. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story of her mother that she had “never found a way to ask her why she had hoped for something so large that” what “was inevitable”?
(a) Revenge
(b) Despair
(c) Failure
(d) Sadness

4. How does Jing-Mei describe Auntie Lindo’s smile when she looks out at the audience before beginning her piano solo at the talent show?
(a) Stiff-lipped
(b) Broad and happy
(c) Terse and comical
(d) Slivery

5. What is Jing-Mei’s last name in the story?
(a) Hsu
(b) Woo
(c) Chong
(d) Jong

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Jing-Mei’s mother abandon her first children, hoping for them to become adopted?

2. Of the composition that the piano prodigy plays on The Ed Sullivan Show, Jing-Mei says, “I remember the song, because later on” what?

3. The Magnuson Act was passed in the year that China became what?

4. Jing-Mei says that soon after her mother got the idea for her to be a Chinese Shirley Temple, she took her to a beauty school in what district?

5. After Jing-Mei’s mother tells her that she has enrolled her in piano lessons, Jing-Mei says, “When my mother told me this, I felt as though I had been” what?

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