"Two Kinds"

Why does Jing-Mei's mother take her to get her hair cut and curled?

• to make her look older

• to make her look taller

• to make her look like Shirley Temple

• to make her look like a woman in a magazine

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At first, Jing-Mei is happy about her mother's plans to become a prodigy because...

• She identifies with the child star Shirley Temple

• She hopes she will win approval from her parents and become perfect.

• She wants to outshine her cousin.

• She is bored at home.

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The mother's plans for making Jing-Mei a prodigy can best be described as...

• sensitive and warm

• lighthearted and joyous

• insensitive and unrealistic

• well planned and carefully thought out

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Which phrase best describes Jing-Mei's attitude towards her mother's prodigy quizzes/tests? 

• eagerness to please

• perfect performance

• endless enjoyment

• impatience and boredom

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After Jing-Mei becomes angry at her reflection in the mirror, she suddenly realizes that...

• She has become a sad, unpleasant girl.

• The alternative to being a prodigy is being nobody.

• She has the power to decide for herself who she will be.

• She really can be the prodigy that her mother wants her to be.

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The mother's judgement of the Chinese girl's piano performance on The Ed Sullivan Show is "Play note right, but doesn't sound good! No singing sound." By this the mother means that...

• The girl's playing is perfect but shows no feeling for the music.

• The girl does not accompany her playing by singing the tune.

• The piano is not tuned properly.

• The sound produced by the television is distorted.

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In the following sentence from "Two Kinds" what is the best way to break down the word frighteningly to figure out its meaning?

"She was frighteningly strong..."

• fright, -en, -ing, -ly

• frighten, -ingly

• fri-, ghten, -ingly

• fri, -ght-, -eningly

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In "Two Kinds," the overall feeling that you get when Jing-Mei's describes her piano lessons with Mr. Chong?

• angry

• sad

• comical

• bitter

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The phrase that best describes Jing-Mei's relationship with her cousin Waverly is...

• warm and sisterly

• friendly not distant

• cold and uncaring

• jealous and competitive

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What does the word fiasco mean in the sentence below:

"I had assumed my talent-show fiasco meant that I would never have to play the piano again."

• temper tantrum

• disaster

• final performance

• first performance

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