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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) A week ago
(b) A month ago
(c) A year ago
(d) Two days ago

2. From what opera does Jing-Mei describe the “breasted girl with white makeup” singing from at the talent show?
(a) Madame Butterfly
(b) Les Miserables
(c) Guys and Dolls
(d) The Phantom of the Opera

3. When Jing-Mei argues with her mother over piano practice after the talent show, she says, “As I said these things I got scared. I felt like” what were “crawling out of my chest”?
(a) The living dead and all my past
(b) Phantoms and ghosts and darkness
(c) Worms and toads and slimy things
(d) Demons and beasts and dragons

4. What answer does Jing-Mei give when her mother asks her early in the story, “What’s the capital of Finland?”
(a) Lexington
(b) Rockland
(c) Omaha
(d) Nairobi

5. The Magnuson Act was passed in the year that China became what?
(a) An official ally to the U.S. in World War I
(b) An official ally to the U.S. in World War II
(c) An official ally to the U.S. in the Korean War
(d) An official ally to the Germans in World War II

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Auntie Lindo’s daughter say matter-of-factly to Jing-Mei after her performance at the talent show?

2. When Jing-Mei was helping her father get things in order after Jing-Mei’s mother died, she says she found “some old Chinese silk dresses, the kind with” what?

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

4. How old was Shirley Temple when she began her film career?

5. What is Jing-Mei’s last name in the story?

(see the answer key)

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