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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How old was Shirley Temple when she began her film career?
(a) 3
(b) 10
(c) 8
(d) 5
2. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong’s mother as having a particular smell about her of what?
(a) A baby that had done something in its pants
(b) Fresh flowers and stale perfume
(c) Baked apple pies and the smell of autumn
(d) Freshly mowed grass and spring
3. When was author Amy Tan born?
(a) 1940
(b) 1965
(c) 1911
(d) 1952
4. When Jing-Mei has a revelation while staring at herself in the bathroom mirror as a child, how does she describe the girl who is staring back at her?
(a) Soft, radiant
(b) Confused, lost
(c) Broken, ashamed
(d) Angry, powerful
5. How does Jing-Mei describe her mother’s first children in the beginning of the story?
(a) Twin baby girls
(b) Three sons
(c) Twin baby boys
(d) A boy and a girl
Short Answer Questions
1. Of the composition that the piano prodigy plays on The Ed Sullivan Show, Jing-Mei says, “I remember the song, because later on” what?
2. What is symbolized by the second song that Jing-Mei finds in her piano workbook at the end of the story?
3. By what name does Jing-Mei refer to Mr. Chong’s mother as in the story?
4. What word from the story means to play music with a vibratory or quavering effect?
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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Jing-Mei discover about playing the piano as she begins her studies with Mr. Chong?
2. What does Jing-Mei discover about Mr. Chong’s disabilities as she studies with him? How does this discovery influence her actions?
3. How does Jing-Mei respond to her mother’s offer on her thirtieth birthday?
4. How does Jing-Mei describe Mr. Chong’s history in music? How does she describe her first lessons?
5. How does Jing-Mei feel about her mother’s ambitions for her at first when she is a child?
6. What are Suyuan Woo’s views of opportunity in America, as noted by the narrator in the opening of the story?
7. How does Jing-Mei’s mother respond when Jing-Mei refuses to practice piano after the talent show?
8. What innovations in literary style is Amy Tan known for?
9. What does Jing-Mei say to her mother to hurt her during their conflict in the climax of the story? How does Suyuan respond?
10. How and when did the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act influence immigration in the U.S.?
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