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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. During what years did The Ed Sullivan Show air on television?
2. How does Jing-Mei describe the look on her mother’s face when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsey after her piano solo in the talent show?
3. What musical term from the story refers to a composition for one or two instruments, typically comprised of three or four movements in contrasting forms and keys?
4. How does Jing-Mei described her family’s kitchen table where she would sit after dinner with her mother during her childhood?
5. When Jing-Mei refuses to practice piano after the talent show, she tells her mother, “Why should I? I’m not” what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Jing-Mei find when she takes her bow after her performance at the talent show?
2. What are Suyuan Woo’s views of opportunity in America, as noted by the narrator in the opening of the story?
3. How does Jing-Mei feel as she prepares to perform at the talent show?
4. How does Jing-Mei describe her life as she passed from childhood to adulthood? In what ways does she say she disappointed her mother?
5. What does Jing-Mei say to her mother to hurt her during their conflict in the climax of the story? How does Suyuan respond?
6. What child star does Suyuan Woo attempt to mold her daughter into? What happens with this attempt?
7. In what ways can the reader see early in the story that Jing-Mei’s ambitions (and her mother’s) are misplaced?
8. How did critics receive The Joy Luck Club and “Two Kinds” upon publication?
9. In what ways does Suyuan Woo lack in communication with her daughter in the beginning of the story?
10. How does Jing-Mei describe the piece she is to play at the talent show? How does she describe her practice for the performance?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the conflict between Jing-Mei and Suyuan Woo regarding Jing-Mei’s piano lessons in the narrative. How does Jing-Mei respond to her mother’s news that she has arranged for lessons? Why does Suyuan slap Jing-Mei? How does Jing-Mei respond?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the history of Chinese immigration in the United States. In what ways have Chinese immigrants faced different hurdles in assimilating into American or other Western cultures as immigrants? How is this seen in Jing-Mei’s family in “Two Kinds”?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and discuss the character of Mr. Chong in “Two Kinds.” What was Mr. Chong’s profession prior to his retirement? How old does Jing-Mei perceive Mr. Chong to be? Where does Mr. Chong live? How does Mr. Chong relate to Jing-Mei?
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