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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many sons does Auntie Lindo have in the story?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4

2. When Jing-Mei’s mother still lived in China, her husband was serving as an officer where?
(a) Beijing
(b) Shanghai
(c) Chongqing
(d) Guangzhou

3. When the instructor of the beauty school has to cut off Jing-Mei’s hair because of the bad perm, she tells Jing-Mei’s mother that what play is very popular these days?
(a) Little Orphan Annie
(b) Peter Pan
(c) Guys and Dolls
(d) Cinderella

4. What illness did Jing-Mei’s mother contract while trying to flee China?
(a) Malaria
(b) Pneumonia
(c) Gangrene
(d) Dysentery

5. What word from the story means coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited?
(a) Impertinent
(b) Depreciatory
(c) Fanatical
(d) Nonchalant

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei describes the sound of the “bellows of the foghorns out on the bay” as sounding like what?

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

3. What literary term refers to a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, idea, setting, or object?

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

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