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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 the opposite of the previous song
(b) It is composed by her mother
(c) It is the second half of the same song
(d) It is composed by Mr. Chong

2. Jing-Mei describes the girl playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show as having the sauciness of whom?
(a) John Wayne
(b) Shirley Temple
(c) Little Orphan Annie
(d) Peter Pan

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

4. What is the name of the song that Jing-Mei finds next to the Schumann piece she played for the talent show at the end of the story?
(a) Perfectly Contented
(b) Anita’s Dance
(c) Pleading Child
(d) Peter’s Waltz

5. At the talent show where Jing-Mei makes her piano debut, she describes an eleven-year-old boy who won first prize for what performance?
(a) A violin solo
(b) A mime act
(c) A piano solo
(d) A comedic monologue

6. 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) Hated each other
(b) Pestered each other
(c) Loved each other
(d) Envied each other

7. What does Jing-Mei promise herself when she has the revelation while staring in the bathroom mirror as a child?
(a) I won’t allow myself to be a victim
(b) I won’t let her change me
(c) I won’t get married to him
(d) I won’t become an actress

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

9. Where does Jing-Mei describe the piano as standing in her parents’ living room at the end of the story?
(a) In front of the door to the kitchen
(b) In front of the television
(c) In front of the staircase
(d) In front of the bay windows

10. After Jing-Mei’s mother tells her that she has enrolled her in piano lessons, Jing-Mei says, “When my mother told me this, I felt as though I had been” what?
(a) Swept under the rug
(b) Sent to heaven
(c) Given a kingdom
(d) Sent to hell

11. What musical term in the story refers to the sounding of notes in a chord in rapid succession instead of simultaneously?”
(a) Trill
(b) Bass
(c) Sonata
(d) Arpeggio

12. What word from the story mean to find fault in, blame, or censure?
(a) Confiscate
(b) Adulterate
(c) Reproach
(d) Tolerate

13. What is the name of the street that Jing-Mei’s family lives on when she is a child?
(a) Oxford Street
(b) Sacramento Street
(c) Roosevelt Street
(d) Jefferson Street

14. “Two Kinds” is a short story that was initially published in what periodical in February 1989?
(a) Reader’s Digest
(b) The Atlantic
(c) The San Franciscan
(d) The New Yorker

15. Of her lack of ambitions in music, Jing-Mei says “I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant” what?
(a) Soliloquies
(b) Hymns
(c) Waltzes
(d) Sonatas

Short Answer Questions

1. What college does Jing-Mei say she didn’t get into, causing more disappointment for her mother?

2. How does Jing-Mei say she felt when her time to perform her piano solo at the talent show came?

3. What word from the narrative means under a magical trance?

4. How many sons does Auntie Lindo have in the story?

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

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