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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many hours a day does Jing-Mei have access to the piano at Mr. Chong’s for practice when she first begins taking lessons?
(a) 4
(b) 3
(c) 1
(d) 2
2. 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?
(a) Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance
(b) And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose
(c) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
(d) For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith
3. Where did author Amy Tan grow up?
(a) New York, New York
(b) Chicago, Illinois
(c) New Orleans, Louisiana
(d) Oakland, California
4. 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?
(a) A year ago
(b) A week ago
(c) Two days ago
(d) A month ago
5. While watching the young piano prodigy on The Ed Sullivan Show with her mother, Jing-Mei says, “In spite of these warning signs, I wasn’t worried.” Why was Jing-Mei not concerned?
(a) Her family couldn’t afford to buy a piano and lessons
(b) Her parents believed piano music was immoral
(c) Her mother didn’t enjoy the sound of the piano
(d) Her mother knew she was tone deaf
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Jing-Mei describe the secondhand piano that her parents bought for her?
2. Jing-Mei describes the girl playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show as having the sauciness of whom?
3. What complaint does Jing-Mei’s mother make about the young piano prodigy that she watches on The Ed Sullivan Show?
4. What is Auntie Lindo’s husband’s name?
5. Jing-Mei describes her childhood ambitions in the beginning of the story by comparing herself to “Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with” what type of music “filling the air”?
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