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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of her first lessons with Mr. Chong, Jing-Mei says, “I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord and then I just played some nonsense that sounded like” what?
(a) A solitary violin
(b) A crash of bricks against a tin rooftop
(c) A cat running up and down on top of garbage cans
(d) A chorus of birds singing in the treetops

2. What does Jing-Mei’s mother die from?
(a) Cancer
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) A brain aneurysm
(d) A car accident

3. What “magic word” as in conjuring does Jing-Mei use to describe the effect of her having said hurtful things to her mother during their fight about piano practice?
(a) Abracadabra
(b) Kapow
(c) Alakazam
(d) Voila

4. How many mothers comprise the Joy Luck Club in the story?
(a) 7
(b) 4
(c) 6
(d) 5

5. What musical term, taught by Mr. Chong to Jing-Mei in their lessons, means pertaining to the highest part in harmonized music?
(a) Bass
(b) Sonata
(c) Scale
(d) Treble

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary term refers to a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, idea, setting, or object?

2. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kinds” is related from what perspective?

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 does the phrase “Ni kan” translate to, according to the narrator?

5. Edvard Grieg is considered one of the leading composers of what era?

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