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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Magnuson Act signed into law?
(a) 1959
(b) 1988
(c) 1961
(d) 1943

2. What does Jing-Mei realize about the song she finds next to the one she played for the talent show at the end of the story?
(a) It is composed by Mr. Chong
(b) It is the second half of the same song
(c) It is the opposite of the previous song
(d) It is composed by her mother

3. What are the names of the families from the Joy Luck Club that come up to Jing-Mei’s mother and father after Jing-Mei’s performance at the talent show?
(a) The Woos, the Lees, and the Wilsons
(b) The Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs
(c) The Yus, the Tsings, and the Lees
(d) The Tsings, the Lees and the Hsus

4. Who founded the Ripley’s Believe It or Not franchise?
(a) Alexander Ripley
(b) James Ripley
(c) George Ripley
(d) Robert Ripley

5. What word from the narrative means under a magical trance?
(a) Elated
(b) Trilled
(c) Bewitched
(d) Engulfed

Short Answer 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?

2. When was Edvard Grieg born?

3. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of the story that at first her mother thought she could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. “We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were” what?

4. What is the name of Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the story?

5. Jing-Mei says that as a child “sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient.” What did Jing-Mei’s inner prodigy tell her at this time?

(see the answer key)

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