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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. From what opera does Jing-Mei describe the “breasted girl with white makeup” singing from at the talent show?
(a) Madame Butterfly
(b) The Phantom of the Opera
(c) Les Miserables
(d) Guys and Dolls
2. When Jing-Mei’s mother enrolls her in piano lessons, Jing-Mei says, “I can’t play the piano. And even if I could, I wouldn’t” what?
(a) Go on TV if you paid me a million dollars
(b) Take lessons from Mr. Chong
(c) Be able to play it well enough for your expectations
(d) Play for you
3. Of her first lessons with Mr. Chong, Jing-Mei says, “I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord and then I just played some nonsense that sounded like” what?
(a) A crash of bricks against a tin rooftop
(b) A cat running up and down on top of garbage cans
(c) A solitary violin
(d) A chorus of birds singing in the treetops
4. Jing-Mei says that during her childhood, the tests her mother gave her “got harder—multiplying numbers in my head, finding” what card in a deck of cards?
(a) The ace of diamonds
(b) The joker card
(c) The queen of hearts
(d) The five of spades
5. When Jing-Mei refuses to practice piano after the talent show, she tells her mother, “Why should I? I’m not” what?
(a) A genius
(b) Your daughter
(c) Talented
(d) You
Short Answer Questions
1. Jing-Mei describes sitting down nightly with her mother to examine stories of child prodigies when she was a child. The first of these stories is about a boy who knows all the state capitals and most of the European countries at what age?
2. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons with him as “very strange, always tapping his fingers to the silent music of” 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. Where does Jing-Mei find her exercise notes and secondhand music books at the end of the story?
5. How long ago has Jing-Mei’s mother died when she sends the tuner to recondition the piano at the end of the story?
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