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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Juggling balls
(b) Yo-yos
(c) Hula Hoops
(d) Jump ropes

2. What are the names of the families from the Joy Luck Club that come up to Jing-Mei’s mother and father after Jing-Mei’s performance at the talent show?
(a) The Yus, the Tsings, and the Lees
(b) The Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs
(c) The Tsings, the Lees and the Hsus
(d) The Woos, the Lees, and the Wilsons

3. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story of her mother that she had “never found a way to ask her why she had hoped for something so large that” what “was inevitable”?
(a) Sadness
(b) Failure
(c) Despair
(d) Revenge

4. What does Auntie Lindo’s daughter say matter-of-factly to Jing-Mei after her performance at the talent show?
(a) You should really be a singer
(b) You aren’t a genius like me
(c) You’re not as talented as you think you are
(d) You did a wonderful job

5. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story that “unlike my mother, I did not believe I could” what?
(a) Be talented or worthy
(b) Be anything I wanted to be
(c) Be free
(d) Overcome my heritage

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the little girl on The Ed Sullivan Show that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano?

2. Where does Jing-Mei describe the piano as standing in her parents’ living room at the end of the story?

3. What U.S. President signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law?

4. As Jing-Mei walks back to her seat after her performance in the talent show, she overhears a little boy say to his mother, “That was awful.” What does the boy’s mother reply?

5. Edvard Grieg was a composer and pianist from what country?

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