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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Slivery
(b) Stiff-lipped
(c) Terse and comical
(d) Broad and happy

2. What is the name of Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the story?
(a) Waverly
(b) An-Mei
(c) Ying-Ying
(d) Betty

3. What college does Jing-Mei say she didn’t get into, causing more disappointment for her mother?
(a) Yale
(b) Emerson
(c) Oxford
(d) Stanford

4. Of her lack of ambitions in music, Jing-Mei says “I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant” what?
(a) Sonatas
(b) Waltzes
(c) Hymns
(d) Soliloquies

5. Jing-Mei says to her mother as they argue over piano practice after the talent show, “I’ll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!” Her mother responds, “Only two kinds of daughters.” What are these two kinds?
(a) Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind
(b) Those who marry young and those who are old widows
(c) Those who carry their name with pride and those who don’t
(d) Those who are respectful and those who are ungrateful

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei kick under her feet as her mother drags her to the piano for practice after the talent show?

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

3. What does Jing-Mei’s mother trade with Mr. Chong so that Jing-Mei may take piano lessons from him?

4. The little girl that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show is said to have what kind of haircut?

5. How many days after the talent show is it when Jing-Mei is surprised that her mother insists she practice piano?

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