1. How does Jing-Mei’s mother respond when Jing-Mei throws a fit when she’s told she’ll be taking piano lessons?
(a) She laughs at her
(b) She weeps
(c) She slaps her
(d) She calls her father

2. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her she looks like after she’s been given a bad perm at the beauty school?
(a) A Cupie Doll
(b) Raggedy Anne
(c) Negro Chinese
(d) An orphan

3. How does Jing-Mei describe her family’s television at the time when her mother watched The Ed Sullivan Show?
(a) The TV was a black and white model but had a good picture
(b) The TV was brand new but the picture was still blurry
(c) The TV was new and the picture was clear
(d) The TV was old and the sound kept shorting out

4. What musical term from the story means pertaining to the lowest part in harmonic music?
(a) Bass
(b) Treble
(c) Scale
(d) Sonata

5. What literary term refers to a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, idea, setting, or object?
(a) Entrenchment
(b) Parable
(c) Prelude
(d) Vignette

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story that she had never asked her mother about her hope, “And that even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most”. What is the question that so frightened Jing-Mei?

2. How does Jing-Mei described her family’s kitchen table where she would sit after dinner with her mother during her childhood?

3. What is the name of the Schumann piece that Jing-Mei is to play at the talent show?

4. How many sons does Auntie Lindo have in the story?

5. When was Shirley Temple born?

(see the answer key)

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