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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei promise herself when she has the revelation while staring in the bathroom mirror as a child?
(a) I won’t become an actress
(b) I won’t allow myself to be a victim
(c) I won’t let her change me
(d) I won’t get married to him

2. What is Auntie Lindo’s last name in the story?
(a) Woo
(b) Hsu
(c) St. Clair
(d) Jong

3. Auntie Lindo tells Jing-Mei’s mother that all day long she has no time to do anything but what, when she is bragging about her daughter?
(a) Vacuum her daughter’s messes up
(b) Dust off her trophies
(c) Polish her daughter’s beauty crowns
(d) Clean her daughter’s pageant dresses

4. What color does Jing-Mei say her mother knitted sweaters in, which were also “all the colors I hated”?
(a) Blue, red, and silver
(b) Green, blue, and yellow
(c) Yellow, pink, and orange
(d) Red, white, and black

5. Of her first lessons with Mr. Chong, Jing-Mei says, “I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord and then I just played some nonsense that sounded like” what?
(a) A chorus of birds singing in the treetops
(b) A cat running up and down on top of garbage cans
(c) A solitary violin
(d) A crash of bricks against a tin rooftop

6. When Jing-Mei refuses to practice piano after the talent show, she tells her mother, “Why should I? I’m not” what?
(a) Your daughter
(b) A genius
(c) You
(d) Talented

7. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her she looks like after she’s been given a bad perm at the beauty school?
(a) An orphan
(b) A Cupie Doll
(c) Negro Chinese
(d) Raggedy Anne

8. 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 Chess Champion
(b) Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Checkers Champion
(c) Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Swimming Star
(d) Chinatown’s Littlest “Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Mah-jongg Champion

9. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kind” is related in what tense?
(a) Future tense
(b) Future-possessive tense
(c) Past tense
(d) Present tense

10. How old is the boy at the talent show that is described as wearing a fake moustache and doing a magic show?
(a) 10
(b) 18
(c) 12
(d) 16

11. After Jing-Mei’s mother tells her that she has enrolled her in piano lessons, Jing-Mei says, “When my mother told me this, I felt as though I had been” what?
(a) Given a kingdom
(b) Sent to heaven
(c) Sent to hell
(d) Swept under the rug

12. In the 1993 film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, what actress played the role of Jing-Mei?
(a) Tsai Chin
(b) Kieu Chinh
(c) Ming-Na Wen
(d) Tamlyn Tomita

13. What musical term from Jing-Mei’s piano lessons means characterized by abruptness and disconnectedness?
(a) Staccato
(b) Reverie
(c) Arpeggio
(d) Trill

14. How old is the little girl on The Ed Sullivan Show that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano?
(a) 16
(b) 3
(c) 12
(d) 9

15. 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 door to the kitchen
(c) In front of the television
(d) In front of the staircase

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Jing-Mei describes the girl playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show as having the sauciness of whom?

3. What musical term in the story refers to the sounding of notes in a chord in rapid succession instead of simultaneously?”

4. What “magic word” as in conjuring does Jing-Mei use to describe the effect of her having said hurtful things to her mother during their fight about piano practice?

5. For how long does Jing-Mei say she practiced piano with Mr. Chong before she overheard her mother and Auntie Lindo bragging about their children?

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