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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Jing-Mei says that soon after her mother got the idea for her to be a Chinese Shirley Temple, she took her to a beauty school in what district?
(a) SoHo
(b) Potrero Hill
(c) Noe Valley
(d) The Mission district
2. By the time that Jing-Mei is preparing to play in the talent recital, her parents have bought her what kind of secondhand piano?
(a) A Wurlitzer spinet
(b) A Förster upright
(c) A Steinway grand
(d) A Steinway upright
3. Describing her mother’s reaction to her hurtful words, Jing-Mei says, “she backed out of the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like” what?
(a) A small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless
(b) A wisp of hair, broken and abandoned
(c) A paper sack, dull and soiled
(d) A dandelion in the autumn sunset
4. What answer does Jing-Mei give when her mother asks her early in the story, “What’s the capital of Finland?”
(a) Lexington
(b) Rockland
(c) Nairobi
(d) Omaha
5. After Jing-Mei’s performance at the talent show, she says, “We could have escaped during intermission.” What does she say “must have anchored my parents to their chairs”?
(a) A desire to not be shown up by their neighbors
(b) A love for music
(c) A need to punish me further
(d) Pride and some strange sense of honor
Short Answer Questions
1. What illness did Jing-Mei’s mother contract while trying to flee China?
2. 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?
3. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong’s mother as having a particular smell about her of what?
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 word does Jing-Mei use in describing Mr. Chong’s silent instrumental compositions with a vague and dreamy character?
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