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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Jing-Mei sits down to begin her piano solo at the talent show, she envisions whom rushing up to introduce her to everyone on TV?
(a) Bob Newhart
(b) James Dean
(c) Ed Sullivan
(d) Johnny Carson

2. 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?
(a) Parable
(b) Prelude
(c) Entrenchment
(d) Vignette

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

4. “Two Kinds” is a short story from Amy Tan’s book The Joy Luck Club. This collection of short stories revolves around the lives of Chinese immigrant women who form a club and play what game?
(a) Chess
(b) Chinese checkers
(c) Bridge
(d) Mah-jongg

5. Of Auntie Lindo, Jing-Mei’s mother says in the beginning of the story, “Her daughter, she is only best” what?
(a) Student
(b) Tricky
(c) At trying
(d) Chess champion

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Jing-Mei’s mother asks her for the capital of Finland, Jing-Mei responds with the capital of what country in the beginning of the story?

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

4. Auntie Lindo tells Jing-Mei’s mother that all day long she has no time to do anything but what, when she is bragging about her daughter?

5. How does Jing-Mei describe the look on her mother’s face when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsey after her piano solo in the talent show?

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