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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does Jing-Mei describe the piano as standing in her parents’ living room at the end of the story?
(a) In front of the bay windows
(b) In front of the staircase
(c) In front of the television
(d) In front of the door to the kitchen
2. Jing-Mei says to her mother as they argue over piano practice after the talent show, “I’ll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!” Her mother responds, “Only two kinds of daughters.” What are these two kinds?
(a) Those who are respectful and those who are ungrateful
(b) Those who marry young and those who are old widows
(c) Those who carry their name with pride and those who don’t
(d) Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind
3. When Jing-Mei was helping her father get things in order after Jing-Mei’s mother died, she says she found “some old Chinese silk dresses, the kind with” what?
(a) Little slits up the sides
(b) Gathers in the sleeves
(c) Golden silk thread
(d) Hand-sewn little pockets
4. What musical term, taught by Mr. Chong to Jing-Mei in their lessons, means pertaining to the highest part in harmonized music?
(a) Sonata
(b) Treble
(c) Bass
(d) Scale
5. Jing-Mei’s mother tells her when Jing-Mei resists taking piano lessons, “Who ask you be genius? Only ask you be” what?
(a) Your best
(b) Prodigy
(c) Passionate
(d) Responsible
Short Answer Questions
1. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story that “unlike my mother, I did not believe I could” what?
2. What does the phrase “Ni kan” translate to, according to the narrator?
3. When Jing-Mei and her mother get into an argument about Jing-Mei beginning piano lessons, Jing-Mei’s mother exclaims, “If she had as much talent as she has temper, she would be” what?
4. What does Jing-Mei say to defend the young piano player on The Ed Sullivan Show when her mother criticizes her performance?
5. Why does Jing-Mei say she sent a tuner to recondition the piano at her parents’ house?
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