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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was author Amy Tan born?
(a) 1952
(b) 1911
(c) 1940
(d) 1965
2. How does Jing-Mei described her family’s kitchen table where she would sit after dinner with her mother during her childhood?
(a) Oak
(b) Marble
(c) Formica
(d) Plywood
3. What does the piano symbolize in “Two Kinds”?
(a) Jing-Mei’s love for her father
(b) Jing-Mei’s longing for cultural resonance
(c) Jing-Mei’s belief in a higher spiritual being
(d) Jing-Mei’s mother’s ambitions for her
4. When was Edvard Grieg born?
(a) 1919
(b) 1798
(c) 1843
(d) 1935
5. Jing-Mei describes the fingers of Mr. Chong’s mother as feeling like what?
(a) The inside of an oyster
(b) A dead person’s
(c) A jellyfish
(d) A fat baby’s
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the nickname that Auntie Lindo’s daughter is known by in the area where Jing-Mei grows up?
2. In the 1993 film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, what actress played the role of Jing-Mei?
3. Which of the following is a major theme throughout “Two Kinds”?
4. The Magnuson Act was passed in the year that China became what?
5. Jing-Mei describes sitting down nightly with her mother to examine stories of child prodigies when she was a child. The first of these stories is about a boy who knows all the state capitals and most of the European countries at what age?
Short Essay Questions
1. What cultural similarities can be seen between the author’s childhood and that of Jing-Mei in “Two Kinds”?
2. How does Jing-Mei describe her performance at the talent show?
3. How does the narrative style in “Two Kinds” shift throughout the story? Why does it shift?
4. What does Jing-Mei discover about playing the piano as she begins her studies with Mr. Chong?
5. What discovery does Jing-Mei make regarding the song she played at the talent show in the end of the story?
6. What innovations in literary style is Amy Tan known for?
7. How does the conflict that marks the climax of the story begin? How much time has passed since Jing-Mei’s performance at the talent show?
8. How does Jing-Mei say her perceptions differed from her mother’s in regard to ambition as she looks back at the end of the story?
9. What does Jing-Mei discover about Mr. Chong’s disabilities as she studies with him? How does this discovery influence her actions?
10. What are Suyuan Woo’s views of opportunity in America, as noted by the narrator in the opening of the story?
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