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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 say Mr. Chong would balance on her wrists as she practiced piano so that she would keep them still?
(a) Quarters
(b) Dimes
(c) Pennies
(d) Apples

2. What nickname does Jing-Mei say she secretly gave Mr. Chong when she began taking piano lessons with him?
(a) Sage Chong
(b) Old Chong
(c) Wicked Chong
(d) Wise Chong

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

4. What complaint does Jing-Mei’s mother make about the young piano prodigy that she watches on The Ed Sullivan Show?
(a) Play not too good, but has character
(b) Play note right, but doesn’t sound good! No singing sound
(c) Play wrong notes. Chords are all off
(d) Play wrong notes and smiles without meaning to

5. How does Jing-Mei say her academic career ended in “Two Kinds”?
(a) She earned a bachelor’s degree
(b) She earned a master’s degree
(c) She earned a law degree
(d) She dropped out of college

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei describes the fingers of Mr. Chong’s mother as feeling like what?

2. Jing-Mei describes her childhood ambitions in the beginning of the story by comparing herself to “Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with” what type of music “filling the air”?

3. What does the piano symbolize in “Two Kinds”?

4. What U.S. President signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law?

5. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kind” is related in what tense?

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