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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Jing-Mei use in describing Mr. Chong’s silent instrumental compositions with a vague and dreamy character?
(a) Staccato
(b) Reverie
(c) Arpeggio
(d) Trill

2. What does Jing-Mei’s mother do to earn money for the family when Jing-Mei is a child?
(a) She cleans houses
(b) She teaches piano
(c) She teaches English
(d) She cooks at a hotel

3. Why does Jing-Mei say she sent a tuner to recondition the piano at her parents’ house?
(a) Because I planned to play it again
(b) Because I wanted to sell it
(c) Because I wanted to have it appraised
(d) For purely sentimental reasons

4. What color dress does Jing-Mei wear for her piano debut at the talent show?
(a) Red
(b) Blue
(c) White
(d) Yellow

5. Edvard Grieg was a composer and pianist from what country?
(a) France
(b) Norway
(c) England
(d) Germany

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long does Jing-Mei say she practiced piano with Mr. Chong before she overheard her mother and Auntie Lindo bragging about their children?

2. Jing-Mei is surprised after her “talent-show fiasco” that her mother did not do what?

3. What illness did Jing-Mei’s mother contract while trying to flee China?

4. In the 1993 film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, what actress played the role of Jing-Mei?

5. 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?

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