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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Auntie Lindo’s last name in the story?
(a) St. Clair
(b) Jong
(c) Hsu
(d) Woo

2. When Jing-Mei argues with her mother over piano practice after the talent show, she says, “As I said these things I got scared. I felt like” what were “crawling out of my chest”?
(a) Phantoms and ghosts and darkness
(b) Demons and beasts and dragons
(c) The living dead and all my past
(d) Worms and toads and slimy things

3. What musical term, taught by Mr. Chong to Jing-Mei in their lessons, means pertaining to the highest part in harmonized music?
(a) Scale
(b) Sonata
(c) Treble
(d) Bass

4. What does Jing-Mei wear in her hair at the talent show?
(a) A gold ribbon
(b) A silver crown
(c) A pink bow
(d) A yellow bow

5. What is the name of the song that Jing-Mei finds next to the Schumann piece she played for the talent show at the end of the story?
(a) Anita’s Dance
(b) Perfectly Contented
(c) Peter’s Waltz
(d) Pleading Child

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary term refers to a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, idea, setting, or object?

2. Mr. Chong and Jing-Mei’s mother conspire to have Jing-Mei perform in a talent show held where in the story?

3. Who is the only person applauding when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsy at the talent show?

4. What does Jing-Mei say Mr. Chong would balance on her wrists as she practiced piano so that she would keep them still?

5. What “magic word” as in conjuring does Jing-Mei use to describe the effect of her having said hurtful things to her mother during their fight about piano practice?

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