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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the 1993 film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, what actress played the role of Jing-Mei?
(a) Tsai Chin
(b) Kieu Chinh
(c) Tamlyn Tomita
(d) Ming-Na Wen

2. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her on the phone that she has when offering her the piano for her birthday?
(a) Children who might want to learn
(b) Natural talent
(c) Practiced skill
(d) Lots of money

3. From what opera does Jing-Mei describe the “breasted girl with white makeup” singing from at the talent show?
(a) The Phantom of the Opera
(b) Madame Butterfly
(c) Guys and Dolls
(d) Les Miserables

4. What is symbolized by the second song that Jing-Mei finds in her piano workbook at the end of the story?
(a) The love she had for her father
(b) The inner anguish she suffered as a child
(c) The inner peace she’s found in her life
(d) Her mother’s ambitions for her

5. How does Jing-Mei say she felt when her time to perform her piano solo at the talent show came?
(a) I was worried
(b) I was terrified
(c) I was very confident
(d) I was scared, but hopeful

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei describes the fingers of Mr. Chong’s mother as feeling like what?

2. When Jing-Mei refuses to practice piano after the talent show, she tells her mother, “Why should I? I’m not” what?

3. The Magnuson Act was passed in the year that China became what?

4. Where does Jing-Mei find her exercise notes and secondhand music books at the end of the story?

5. Jing-Mei soon learns after beginning her piano lessons with Mr. Chong that he is deaf. He compares himself to what composer, saying “We’re both listening only in our head”?

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