1. How does Jing-Mei describe her mother’s first children in the beginning of the story?
(a) Twin baby boys
(b) Three sons
(c) Twin baby girls
(d) A boy and a girl

2. What is the name of the street that Jing-Mei’s family lives on when she is a child?
(a) Roosevelt Street
(b) Sacramento Street
(c) Oxford Street
(d) Jefferson Street

3. As Jing-Mei walks back to her seat after her performance in the talent show, she overhears a little boy say to his mother, “That was awful.” What does the boy’s mother reply?
(a) She was terrible
(b) She was wonderful
(c) Well, she certainly tried
(d) Shh. She’s right there

4. In the 1993 film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, what actress played the role of Jing-Mei?
(a) Kieu Chinh
(b) Tamlyn Tomita
(c) Tsai Chin
(d) Ming-Na Wen

5. When was Shirley Temple born?
(a) 1928
(b) 1959
(c) 1911
(d) 1937

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei soon learns after beginning her piano lessons with Mr. Chong that he is deaf. He compares himself to what composer, saying “We’re both listening only in our head”?

2. 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?

3. Who performs first at the talent show where Jing-Mei makes her piano debut?

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

5. Jing-Mei’s mother tells her when Jing-Mei resists taking piano lessons, “Who ask you be genius? Only ask you be” what?

(see the answer key)

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