AmyTansTwoKindsMatchingandMultipleChoiceQuiz-1.pdf

Name: _______________________ Period: ______ Date: ________________ Score: _____/25 “Two Kinds” Quiz Directions: Match each quote to the correct method of indirect characterization (1 point/question). 1. _____ “The part I liked to practice best was the fa...

Name: _______________________ Period: ______ Date: ________________ Score: _____/25 “Two Kinds” Quiz Directions: Match each quote to the correct method of indirect characterization (1 point/question). 1. _____ “The part I liked to practice best was the fancy curtsy: right foot A. speech out, touch the rose on the carpet with a pointed foot, sweep to B. thoughts the side, left leg bends, look up and smile.” C. effects/reactions 2. _____ “Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven D. actions mass of crinkly black fuzz.” E. looks/appearance 3. _____ “I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.” 4. _____ “But my mother’s expression was what devastated me: a quiet, blank look that said she had lost everything.” 5. _____ “‘Then I wish I’d never been born!’ I shouted. ‘I wish I were Dead! Like them.’” Directions: Choose the best answer and circle it (2 points/question). 1. What does Jing-mei’s mother dialect reveal or suggest? a. The information reveals that she did not study English very well in school. b. The information reveals that she does not like America and longs to return to China. c. The information reveals that she is a native Chinese-speaking person for whom English is a second language. d. The information reveals that she speaks simple English so her daughter can understand. 2. All of the following quotes show how much dedication to her daughter, sacrifice, and suffering Jing-mei’s mother has endured or is currently enduring except which? a. “By then, my parents had saved up enough money to buy me a secondhand piano, a black Wurlitzer spinet with a scarred bench.” b. “Every night after dinner, my mother and I would sit at the Formica kitchen table. She would present new tests, taking her examples from stories of amazing children [….]” c. “‘Our problem worser than yours. If we ask Jing-mei wash dish, she hear nothing but music. It’s like you can’t stop this natural talent.’” d. “She had come here in 1949 after losing everything in China: her mother and father, her family home, her first husband, and two daughters, twin baby girls.” 3. What realization does Jing-mei make about the two songs that are side by side and are “two halves of the same song” at the end of the short story? What about this realization makes it significant? a. The two songs – although different – complement one another well, much like Jing-mei and her mother. b. The two songs – although different – show how different and misplaced Jing-mei and her mother are. c. The two songs are exactly the same, which suggests how similar Jing-mei and her mother are. d. The two songs are exactly the same, which suggests that Jing-mei should have obeyed and listened to her mother better. 4. The short story is entitled “Two Kinds.” What does the title connect to within the story? a. Jing-mei and her mother b. Jing-mei’s mother and Auntie Lindo c. “Perfectly Contended” and “Pleading Child” d. two kinds of daughters: ones who are obedient and ones who follow their own mind 5. The following quote/piece of evidence could provide indirect characterization in all of the following categories except which: “And after seeing my mother’s disappointed face once again, something inside of me began to die”? a. effects/reactions from other c. speech characters d. thoughts b. looks/appearances 6. Which of the following statements best explains the subtext or verbal irony of the dialogue shared between Auntie Lindo and Jing-mei’s mother (e.g. “‘She bring home too many trophy,’ lamented Auntie Lindo that Sunday. ‘All day she play chess. All day I have no time do nothing but dust off her winnings.’”)? a. Each mother is trying to outdo the other or brag about her daughter implicitly by explicitly pretending to be annoyed at her accomplishments. b. Each mother is trying to implicitly insult her daughter by explicitly praising her. c. Each mother is trying to explicitly mock the other’s daughter. d. Each mother is trying to explicitly tease and question the other mother’s parenting. 7. What is the climax of the short story? a. when Jing-mei and her mother confront one another days after the piano recital b. when Jing-mei decides during the tests her mother conducts that she wants to disobey c. when Jing-mei is at the piano recital d. when Jing-mei realizes that she can cheat in front of Old Chong 8. What happens at the resolution of the short story? a. Jing-mei and her mother become bitter enemies and don’t speak; the mother later dies. b. Jing-mei and her mother fight over the piano recital event forever until the mother dies. c. Jing-mei and her mother learn to accept one another; there is no real “winner” in their fight. d. Jing-mei and her mother never forgive one another and each is too stubborn to apologize. 9. All of the following conflicts are in “Two Kinds” except which? a. Jing-mei vs. her mother (man vs. man) b. Jing-mei vs. Waverly Jong (man vs. man) c. Jing-mei vs. her self (man vs. self) d. Jing-mei vs. Auntie Lindo (man vs. man) 10. What is the point of view of the work, which is evident in this quote: “I won’t let her change me, I promised myself. I won’t be what I’m not.”? a. The work’s point of view is 1st person because Jing-mei recounts her own story from her childhood and later when she grows up. b. The work’s point of view is 3rd person limited because the narrator is telling us information only about Jing-mei; we can see inside her head and not in anyone else’s heads, too. c. The work’s point of view is 3rd person omniscient because the narrator tells us information and insight into multiple characters’ heads (e.g. Jing-mei, her mother, Auntie Lindo, and others). Name: _______________________ Period: ______ Date: ________________ Score: _____/25 “Two Kinds” Quiz – KEY Directions: Match each quote to the correct method of indirect characterization (1 point/question). 1. __D__ “The part I liked to practice best was the fancy curtsy: right foot A. speech out, touch the rose on the carpet with a pointed foot, sweep to B. thoughts the side, left leg bends, look up and smile.” C. effects/reactions 2. __E__ “Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven D. actions mass of crinkly black fuzz.” E. looks/appearance 3. __B__ “I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.” 4. __C__ “But my mother’s expression was what devastated me: a quiet, blank look that said she had lost everything.” 5. __A__ “‘Then I wish I’d never been born!’ I shouted. ‘I wish I were Dead! Like them.’” Directions: Choose the best answer and circle it (2 points/question). 1. What does Jing-mei’s mother dialect reveal or suggest? a. The information reveals that she did not study English very well in school. b. The information reveals that she does not like America and longs to return to China. c. The information reveals that she is a native Chinese-speaking person for whom English is a second language. d. The information reveals that she speaks simple English so her daughter can understand. 2. All of the following quotes show how much dedication to her daughter, sacrifice, and suffering Jing-mei’s mother has endured or is currently enduring except which? a. “By then, my parents had saved up enough money to buy me a secondhand piano, a black Wurlitzer spinet with a scarred bench.” b. “Every night after dinner, my mother and I would sit at the Formica kitchen table. She would present new tests, taking her examples from stories of amazing children [….]” c. “‘Our problem worser than yours. If we ask Jing-mei wash dish, she hear nothing but music. It’s like you can’t stop this natural talent.’” d. “She had come here in 1949 after losing everything in China: her mother and father, her family home, her first husband, and two daughters, twin baby girls.” 3. What realization does Jing-mei make about the two songs that are side by side and are “two halves of the same song” at the end of the short story? What about this realization makes it significant? a. The two songs – although different – complement one another well, much like Jing-mei and her mother. b. The two songs – although different – show how different and misplaced Jing-mei and her mother are. c. The two songs are exactly the same, which suggests how similar Jing-mei and her mother are. d. The two songs are exactly the same, which suggests that Jing-mei should have obeyed and listened to her mother better. 4. The short story is entitled “Two Kinds.” What does the title connect to within the story? a. Jing-mei and her mother b. Jing-mei’s mother and Auntie Lindo c. “Perfectly Contended” and “Pleading Child” d. two kinds of daughters: ones who are obedient and ones who follow their own mind 5. The following quote/piece of evidence could provide indirect characterization in all of the following categories except which: “And after seeing my mother’s disappointed face once again, something inside of me began to die”? a. effects/reactions from other c. speech characters d. thoughts b. looks/appearances 6. Which of the following statements best explains the subtext or verbal irony of the dialogue shared between Auntie Lindo and Jing-mei’s mother (e.g. “‘She bring home too many trophy,’ lamented Auntie Lindo that Sunday. ‘All day she play chess. All day I have no time do nothing but dust off her winnings.’”)? a. Each mother is trying to outdo the other or brag about her daughter implicitly by explicitly pretending to be annoyed at her accomplishments. b. Each mother is trying to implicitly insult her daughter by explicitly praising her. c. Each mother is trying to explicitly mock the other’s daughter. d. Each mother is trying to explicitly tease and question the other mother’s parenting. 7. What is the climax of the short story? a. when Jing-mei and her mother confront one another days after the piano recital b. when Jing-mei decides during the tests her mother conducts that she wants to disobey c. when Jing-mei is at the piano recital d. when Jing-mei realizes that she can cheat in front of Old Chong 8. What happens at the resolution of the short story? a. Jing-mei and her mother become bitter enemies and don’t speak; the mother later dies. b. Jing-mei and her mother fight over the piano recital event forever until the mother dies. c. Jing-mei and her mother learn to accept one another; there is no real “winner” in their fight. d. Jing-mei and her mother never forgive one another and each is too stubborn to apologize. 9. All of the following conflicts are in “Two Kinds” except which? a. Jing-mei vs. her mother (man vs. man) b. Jing-mei vs. Waverly Jong (man vs. man) c. Jing-mei vs. her self (man vs. self) d. Jing-mei vs. Auntie Lindo (man vs. man) 10. What is the point of view of the work, which is evident in this quote: “I won’t let her change me, I promised myself. I won’t be what I’m not.”? a. The work’s point of view is 1st person because Jing-mei recounts her own story from her childhood and later when she grows up. b. The work’s point of view is 3rd person limited because the narrator is telling us information only about Jing-mei; we can see inside her head and not in anyone else’s heads, too. c. The work’s point of view is 3rd person omniscient because the narrator tells us information and insight into multiple characters’ heads (e.g. Jing-mei, her mother, Auntie Lindo, and others).