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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. What illness did Jing-Mei’s mother contract while trying to flee China?
(a) Dysentery
(b) Gangrene
(c) Malaria
(d) Pneumonia
2. Jing-Mei describes her mother having given her a Bible page to study and then report everything she could remember when she was a child. What does Jing-Mei tell her mother is all she can recall from the passage?
(a) For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith
(b) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
(c) Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance
(d) And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose
3. 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?
(a) 12
(b) 3
(c) 5
(d) 2
4. Jing-Mei says that soon after her mother got the idea for her to be a Chinese Shirley Temple, she took her to a beauty school in what district?
(a) Potrero Hill
(b) Noe Valley
(c) SoHo
(d) The Mission district
5. What does Jing-Mei’s father do as they travel home after the talent show?
(a) He apologizes
(b) He silently weeps
(c) He slaps Jing-Mei
(d) He hums
Short Answer Questions
1. Edvard Grieg was a composer and pianist from what country?
2. The little girl that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show is said to have what kind of haircut?
3. Jing-Mei is surprised after her “talent-show fiasco” that her mother did not do what?
4. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kinds” is related from what perspective?
5. From what opera does Jing-Mei describe the “breasted girl with white makeup” singing from at the talent show?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Jing-Mei respond to her mother’s comment about her to Auntie Lindo? What foreshadowing follows this scene?
2. 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?
3. What does Jing-Mei describe doing every night with her mother at the kitchen table as a child in the beginning of the story?
4. How does Suyuan Woo go about discovering her daughter’s “genius” in the beginning of the story?
5. What performer fascinates Suyuan Woo while watching the Ed Sullivan Show early in the story? How does Jing-Mei respond?
6. What comment does Waverly Jong make to Jing-Mei after her performance at the talent show? How does this make Jing-Mei feel?
7. What does Jing-Mei find when she takes her bow after her performance at the talent show?
8. In what ways can the reader see early in the story that Jing-Mei’s ambitions (and her mother’s) are misplaced?
9. What does Jing-Mei say in defense of the performer on the Ed Sullivan Show when she is criticized by her mother? How does this defense backfire?
10. How does Jing-Mei respond to her mother’s news that she will be taking piano lessons?
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