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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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 joker card
(b) The queen of hearts
(c) The five of spades
(d) The ace of diamonds
2. What is the nickname that Auntie Lindo’s daughter is known by in the area where Jing-Mei grows up?
(a) Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Swimming Star
(b) Chinatown’s Littlest “Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Mah-jongg Champion
(c) Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Chess Champion
(d) Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Checkers Champion
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) Gathers in the sleeves
(b) Hand-sewn little pockets
(c) Golden silk thread
(d) Little slits up the sides
4. What does Jing-Mei say she put her mother’s jewelry in after her death at the end of the story?
(a) Special silk pouches
(b) A bank vault
(c) A post office box
(d) A box made of tin
5. How long ago does Jing-Mei say she sent a tuner to her parents’ apartment to recondition the piano at the end of the story?
(a) A month ago
(b) A year ago
(c) A week ago
(d) Two days ago
Short Answer Questions
1. Who performs first at the talent show where Jing-Mei makes her piano debut?
2. What nickname does Jing-Mei say she secretly gave Mr. Chong when she began taking piano lessons with him?
3. What is the name of Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the story?
4. How long ago has Jing-Mei’s mother died when she sends the tuner to recondition the piano at the end of the story?
5. What complaint does Jing-Mei’s mother make about the young piano prodigy that she watches on The Ed Sullivan Show?
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