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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jing-Mei describe the look on her mother’s face when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsey after her piano solo in the talent show?
(a) Confused
(b) Proud
(c) Stricken
(d) Joyful

2. Of what ethnicity is the little girl on The Ed Sullivan Show that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano?
(a) Japanese
(b) African
(c) Chinese
(d) Eastern European

3. Jing-Mei is surprised after her “talent-show fiasco” that her mother did not do what?
(a) Slap her
(b) Weep
(c) Ground her
(d) Yell at her

4. How do Jing-Mei and her parents travel home after the talent show?
(a) By limousine
(b) By bus
(c) By train
(d) By taxi

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As Jing-Mei walks back to her seat after her performance in the talent show, she overhears a little boy say to his mother, “That was awful.” What does the boy’s mother reply?

2. What is Auntie Lindo’s husband’s name?

3. What does Jing-Mei respond to her mother on the phone when her mother offers her the piano for her birthday and says, “You could been genius if you wanted to”?

4. Where does Jing-Mei describe the piano as standing in her parents’ living room at the end of the story?

5. One of the tests that Jing-Mei’s mother gave her as she attempted to lure out the prodigy in her daughter was predicting the daily temperatures in what three cities?

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