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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of Auntie Lindo’s daughter, Jing-Mei says “We had grown up together and shared all the closeness of two sisters squabbling over crayons and dolls. In other words, for the most part, we” what?
(a) Envied each other
(b) Hated each other
(c) Loved each other
(d) Pestered each other

2. What does Jing-Mei say she mostly did do while she was practicing her music for the talent show?
(a) Listened to all the errors she made
(b) Practiced her scales and chords
(c) Daydreamed about being elsewhere
(d) Focused on the keys she was playing

3. What does the phrase “Ni kan” translate to, according to the narrator?
(a) Go outside
(b) Call me
(c) You watch
(d) Listen closely

4. What musical term from the story refers to a group of notes taken in ascending or descending order within the compass of one octave?
(a) Bass
(b) Scale
(c) Treble
(d) Sonata

5. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kinds” is related from what perspective?
(a) Second-person
(b) First-person
(c) Fourth-person
(d) Third-person

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days after the talent show is it when Jing-Mei is surprised that her mother insists she practice piano?

2. From what opera does Jing-Mei describe the “breasted girl with white makeup” singing from at the talent show?

3. What does Mr. Chong live in relation to Jing-Mei’s family when she’s growing up?

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

5. Of her childhood and the ambitions that Jing-Mei and her mother felt for her at this time, she says in the beginning of the story, “In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become” what?

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