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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. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kind” is related in what tense?
(a) Future tense
(b) Present tense
(c) Future-possessive tense
(d) Past tense

2. When Jing-Mei has a revelation while staring at herself in the bathroom mirror as a child, how does she describe the girl who is staring back at her?
(a) Confused, lost
(b) Broken, ashamed
(c) Angry, powerful
(d) Soft, radiant

3. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of “Two Kinds,” “My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. You could open” what?
(a) A clothing store
(b) A hair salon
(c) A restaurant
(d) A factory

4. What does Jing-Mei say Mr. Chong would balance on her wrists as she practiced piano so that she would keep them still?
(a) Apples
(b) Quarters
(c) Pennies
(d) Dimes

5. What are the names of the families from the Joy Luck Club that come up to Jing-Mei’s mother and father after Jing-Mei’s performance at the talent show?
(a) The Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs
(b) The Yus, the Tsings, and the Lees
(c) The Tsings, the Lees and the Hsus
(d) The Woos, the Lees, and the Wilsons

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei describes the fingers of Mr. Chong’s mother as feeling like what?

2. 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?

3. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story that she had never asked her mother about her hope, “And that even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most”. What is the question that so frightened Jing-Mei?

4. As Jing-Mei walks back to her seat after her performance in the talent show, she overhears a little boy say to his mother, “That was awful.” What does the boy’s mother reply?

5. Mr. Chong and Jing-Mei’s mother conspire to have Jing-Mei perform in a talent show held where in the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jing-Mei describe her performance at the talent show?

2. How does Suyuan Woo develop and maintain her sense of identity in the story?

3. What “transformation” does Jing-Mei undergo while looking into the mirror as a child?

4. How and when did the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act influence immigration in the U.S.?

5. How does the central conflict of the story begin to manifest in Jing-Mei’s mind following her revelation in the mirror?

6. What theme connects “Two Kinds” to the other stories in The Joy Luck Club?

7. How do Suyuan Woo’s ambitions in the beginning of the story set up the central conflict in “Two Kinds”?

8. What child star does Suyuan Woo attempt to mold her daughter into? What happens with this attempt?

9. What arrangement is made between Suyuan Woo and Mr. Chong in regards to Jing-Mei’s piano study and practice?

10. How do Suyuan Woo’s actions in the story encourage the wrong responses from her daughter? What effects does this have on Jing-Mei?

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