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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the talent show where Jing-Mei makes her piano debut, she describes an eleven-year-old boy who won first prize for what performance?
(a) A violin solo
(b) A piano solo
(c) A comedic monologue
(d) A mime act

2. Edvard Grieg is considered one of the leading composers of what era?
(a) The Modernist era
(b) The Romantic era
(c) The Postmodernist era
(d) The Surrealist era

3. What is the name of the song that Jing-Mei finds next to the Schumann piece she played for the talent show at the end of the story?
(a) Pleading Child
(b) Peter’s Waltz
(c) Anita’s Dance
(d) Perfectly Contented

4. What does Jing-Mei do with the Chinese silk dresses she finds when sorting through her mother’s things at the end of the story?
(a) She gives them to her father
(b) She takes them home with her
(c) She gives them to her sister
(d) She sells them

5. 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 cat running up and down on top of garbage cans
(b) A crash of bricks against a tin rooftop
(c) A solitary violin
(d) A chorus of birds singing in the treetops

Short Answer Questions

1. What musical term from the story refers to a group of notes taken in ascending or descending order within the compass of one octave?

2. Where did Jing-Mei’s mother abandon her first children, hoping for them to become adopted?

3. Mr. Chong and Jing-Mei’s mother conspire to have Jing-Mei perform in a talent show held where in the story?

4. After Jing-Mei’s hair debacle where it was cut off like a boy’s, what statement does she make about her feelings of the haircut?

5. What color does Jing-Mei say her mother knitted sweaters in, which were also “all the colors I hated”?

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