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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 is Auntie Lindo’s husband’s name?
(a) Uncle Lee
(b) Uncle Tom
(c) Uncle Wu
(d) Uncle Tin
2. When Jing-Mei’s mother still lived in China, her husband was serving as an officer where?
(a) Beijing
(b) Guangzhou
(c) Shanghai
(d) Chongqing
3. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her on the phone that she has when offering her the piano for her birthday?
(a) Children who might want to learn
(b) Lots of money
(c) Practiced skill
(d) Natural talent
4. Where did Jing-Mei’s mother abandon her first children, hoping for them to become adopted?
(a) In a church cemetery
(b) Under a barren tree
(c) In a ditch outside of town
(d) On church steps
5. What does Jing-Mei say to defend the young piano player on The Ed Sullivan Show when her mother criticizes her performance?
(a) I think her playing sounds beautiful. I don’t know what you’re talking about
(b) She’s not that good, but she’s got a great dress and demeanor
(c) I’m sure she’s practiced. Her parents have money for good training
(d) She’s pretty good. Maybe she’s not the best, but she’s trying hard
Short Answer Questions
1. How many days after the talent show is it when Jing-Mei is surprised that her mother insists she practice piano?
2. For how long does Jing-Mei say she practiced piano with Mr. Chong before she overheard her mother and Auntie Lindo bragging about their children?
3. What does Jing-Mei respond to her mother on the phone when her mother offers her the piano for her birthday and says, “You could been genius if you wanted to”?
4. Which of the following is a major theme throughout “Two Kinds”?
5. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of the story that at first her mother thought she could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. “We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were” what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What offer does Jing-Mei’s mother make her approaching Jing-Mei’s thirtieth birthday?
2. How does Jing-Mei feel as she prepares to perform at the talent show?
3. What does Jing-Mei discover about playing the piano as she begins her studies with Mr. Chong?
4. How does Jing-Mei describe her mother’s immigration to America in the opening of the story? What did she leave behind?
5. Who attends the talent show when Jing-Mei performs? How does Jing-Mei take the stage?
6. How did critics receive The Joy Luck Club and “Two Kinds” upon publication?
7. How does Jing-Mei respond to her mother’s comment about her to Auntie Lindo? What foreshadowing follows this scene?
8. How are the pressures of immigrant families depicted through the character of Suyuan Woo in “Two Kinds”?
9. How does Jing-Mei describe the piece she is to play at the talent show? How does she describe her practice for the performance?
10. What cultural similarities can be seen between the author’s childhood and that of Jing-Mei in “Two Kinds”?
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