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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei kick under her feet as her mother drags her to the piano for practice after the talent show?
(a) The piano bench
(b) The bedspread
(c) Throw rugs
(d) The cat

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?
(a) I had to learn how to play it
(b) I had that song played at my wedding
(c) It was the song played at my mother’s funeral
(d) I heard it again on the radio

3. What “magic word” as in conjuring does Jing-Mei use to describe the effect of her having said hurtful things to her mother during their fight about piano practice?
(a) Alakazam
(b) Kapow
(c) Voila
(d) Abracadabra

4. How does Jing-Mei’s mother respond when Jing-Mei throws a fit when she’s told she’ll be taking piano lessons?
(a) She slaps her
(b) She calls her father
(c) She laughs at her
(d) She weeps

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the story mean to find fault in, blame, or censure?

2. Of Auntie Lindo, Jing-Mei’s mother says in the beginning of the story, “Her daughter, she is only best” what?

3. What does Mr. Chong live in relation to Jing-Mei’s family when she’s growing up?

4. Jing-Mei says of Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons that “he must have been younger than I thought, since he” what?

5. 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”?

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