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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 Jing-Mei’s last name in the story?
(a) Hsu
(b) Chong
(c) Jong
(d) Woo
2. What musical term from Jing-Mei’s piano lessons means characterized by abruptness and disconnectedness?
(a) Arpeggio
(b) Reverie
(c) Staccato
(d) Trill
3. Of her childhood and the ambitions that Jing-Mei and her mother felt for her at this time, she says in the beginning of the story, “In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become” what?
(a) Free
(b) Beautiful
(c) Perfect
(d) Worthwhile
4. 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) Hand-sewn little pockets
(b) Gathers in the sleeves
(c) Little slits up the sides
(d) Golden silk thread
5. What is the neighborhood called where Jing-Mei’s family lives when she’s a child?
(a) SoHo
(b) Nob Hill
(c) Little Italy
(d) Chinatown
Short Answer Questions
1. What word from the story means to play music with a vibratory or quavering effect?
2. What word from the story means coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited?
3. What musical term from the story refers to a composition for one or two instruments, typically comprised of three or four movements in contrasting forms and keys?
4. What does Jing-Mei say she put the sweaters her mother knitted in after she died in the end of the story?
5. Jing-Mei is surprised after her “talent-show fiasco” that her mother did not do what?
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