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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Little slits up the sides
(b) Gathers in the sleeves
(c) Hand-sewn little pockets
(d) Golden silk thread

2. What musical term from the story refers to a group of notes taken in ascending or descending order within the compass of one octave?
(a) Scale
(b) Sonata
(c) Treble
(d) Bass

3. 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) Daydreamed about being elsewhere
(c) Listened to all the errors she made
(d) Practiced her scales and chords

4. What does Jing-Mei say Mr. Chong would balance on her wrists as she practiced piano so that she would keep them still?
(a) Dimes
(b) Apples
(c) Quarters
(d) Pennies

5. What is the name of the street that Jing-Mei’s family lives on when she is a child?
(a) Jefferson Street
(b) Sacramento Street
(c) Roosevelt Street
(d) Oxford Street

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei realize about the song she finds next to the one she played for the talent show at the end of the story?

2. Describing her mother’s reaction to her hurtful words, Jing-Mei says, “she backed out of the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like” what?

3. What does Jing-Mei say to defend the young piano player on The Ed Sullivan Show when her mother criticizes her performance?

4. How does Jing-Mei describe the secondhand piano that her parents bought for her?

5. Jing-Mei says that soon after her mother got the idea for her to be a Chinese Shirley Temple, she took her to a beauty school in what district?

(see the answer key)

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