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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. Jing-Mei says that her mother offered to give her the piano for her birthday when she turned how old?
(a) 20
(b) 40
(c) 25
(d) 30

2. In what year did the film Bright Eyes bring Shirley Temple international fame?
(a) 1948
(b) 1959
(c) 1951
(d) 1934

3. When Jing-Mei refuses to practice piano after the talent show, she tells her mother, “Why should I? I’m not” what?
(a) Talented
(b) You
(c) Your daughter
(d) A genius

4. When Jing-Mei stands up after playing her piano solo at the talent show, she realizes what are shaking?
(a) Her hands
(b) Her ribs
(c) Her shoulders
(d) Her legs

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What musical term from the story refers to a group of notes taken in ascending or descending order within the compass of one octave?

3. Jing-Mei says of Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons that “he must have been younger than I thought, since he” what?

4. What does Jing-Mei say she put her mother’s jewelry in after her death at the end of the story?

5. What does Mr. Chong live in relation to Jing-Mei’s family when she’s growing up?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How does Jing-Mei respond to her mother’s comment about her to Auntie Lindo? What foreshadowing follows this scene?

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

4. What does Jing-Mei say to her mother to hurt her during their conflict in the climax of the story? How does Suyuan respond?

5. How do the subjects and themes in Amy Tan’s works relate to those of other Asian American authors?

6. How does Jing-Mei describe Waverly Jong in the narrative? What has Waverly gained recognition through?

7. How does Jing-Mei respond to her mother’s offer on her thirtieth birthday?

8. How are the pressures of immigrant families depicted through the character of Suyuan Woo in “Two Kinds”?

9. How does Jing-Mei feel about her mother’s ambitions for her at first when she is a child?

10. What offer does Jing-Mei’s mother make her approaching Jing-Mei’s thirtieth birthday?

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