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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei say she mostly did do while she was practicing her music for the talent show?
(a) Focused on the keys she was playing
(b) Practiced her scales and chords
(c) Listened to all the errors she made
(d) Daydreamed about being elsewhere

2. 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) Little slits up the sides
(c) Golden silk thread
(d) Hand-sewn little pockets

3. What is Jing-Mei’s last name in the story?
(a) Chong
(b) Jong
(c) Hsu
(d) Woo

4. At the talent show where Jing-Mei makes her piano debut, she describes an eleven-year-old boy who won first prize for what performance?
(a) A mime act
(b) A violin solo
(c) A comedic monologue
(d) A piano solo

5. How many days after the talent show is it when Jing-Mei is surprised that her mother insists she practice piano?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 3

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei is to play a song from what Schumann opus at the talent show?

2. What refers to circular toys that are twirled around the waist, and that some of the children used at the talent show when Jing-Mei made her piano debut?

3. Who founded the Ripley’s Believe It or Not franchise?

4. 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?

5. How does Jing-Mei describe the Schumann piece that she was to play at the talent show?

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