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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many hours a day does Jing-Mei have access to the piano at Mr. Chong’s for practice when she first begins taking lessons?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 1

2. Jing-Mei says that during her childhood, the tests her mother gave her “got harder—multiplying numbers in my head, finding” what card in a deck of cards?
(a) The five of spades
(b) The queen of hearts
(c) The joker card
(d) The ace of diamonds

3. While watching the young piano prodigy on The Ed Sullivan Show with her mother, Jing-Mei says, “In spite of these warning signs, I wasn’t worried.” Why was Jing-Mei not concerned?
(a) Her parents believed piano music was immoral
(b) Her mother knew she was tone deaf
(c) Her family couldn’t afford to buy a piano and lessons
(d) Her mother didn’t enjoy the sound of the piano

4. What word from the story mean to find fault in, blame, or censure?
(a) Confiscate
(b) Adulterate
(c) Tolerate
(d) Reproach

5. How does Jing-Mei describe her mother’s first children in the beginning of the story?
(a) A boy and a girl
(b) Twin baby boys
(c) Twin baby girls
(d) Three sons

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons with him as “very strange, always tapping his fingers to the silent music of” what?

2. Jing-Mei says that Mr. Chong would have her curve her hand around what object and then keep that shape while playing chords?

3. Of Auntie Lindo, Jing-Mei’s mother says in the beginning of the story, “Her daughter, she is only best” what?

4. What answer does Jing-Mei give when her mother asks her early in the story, “What’s the capital of Finland?”

5. What is Jing-Mei doing on the day when her mother insists she go practice at the piano after the talent show fiasco?

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