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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’s mother trade with Mr. Chong so that Jing-Mei may take piano lessons from him?
(a) Home-cooked meals
(b) Housecleaning services
(c) Medical advice
(d) Dog-walking services

2. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of the story that at first her mother thought she could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. “We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were” what?
(a) Training films
(b) Horror movies
(c) Educational television
(d) Golden cinema

3. How does Jing-Mei described her family’s kitchen table where she would sit after dinner with her mother during her childhood?
(a) Oak
(b) Plywood
(c) Marble
(d) Formica

4. What is the name of the Schumann piece that Jing-Mei is to play at the talent show?
(a) Peter’s Waltz
(b) Pleading Child
(c) Perfectly Contended
(d) Anita's Dance

5. How does Jing-Mei describe the look on her mother’s face when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsey after her piano solo in the talent show?
(a) Confused
(b) Proud
(c) Stricken
(d) Joyful

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei describes her mother having given her a Bible page to study and then report everything she could remember when she was a child. What does Jing-Mei tell her mother is all she can recall from the passage?

2. 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?

3. How old does Jing-Mei say she was when her mother told her “Of course you can be prodigy too” in the beginning of the story?

4. When was Edvard Grieg born?

5. Where did Jing-Mei’s mother abandon her first children, hoping for them to become adopted?

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