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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 of Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons that “he must have been younger than I thought, since he” what?
(a) Had no children and was not yet married
(b) Had sisters that were my mother’s age
(c) Lived with his mother and was not yet married
(d) Had two young children and a young wife
2. What does Jing-Mei kick under her feet as her mother drags her to the piano for practice after the talent show?
(a) The piano bench
(b) Throw rugs
(c) The bedspread
(d) The cat
3. What is Jing-Mei doing on the day when her mother insists she go practice at the piano after the talent show fiasco?
(a) Listening to the radio
(b) Writing in her journal
(c) Calling a friend
(d) Watching TV
4. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of the story that at first her mother thought she could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. “We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were” what?
(a) Horror movies
(b) Training films
(c) Golden cinema
(d) Educational television
5. What “magic word” as in conjuring does Jing-Mei use to describe the effect of her having said hurtful things to her mother during their fight about piano practice?
(a) Alakazam
(b) Voila
(c) Kapow
(d) Abracadabra
Short Answer Questions
1. What complaint does Jing-Mei’s mother make about the young piano prodigy that she watches on The Ed Sullivan Show?
2. How does Jing-Mei say she felt every time she saw the piano in her parents’ living room at the end of the story?
3. What does Jing-Mei promise herself when she has the revelation while staring in the bathroom mirror as a child?
4. Auntie Lindo tells Jing-Mei’s mother that all day long she has no time to do anything but what, when she is bragging about her daughter?
5. When Jing-Mei and her mother get into an argument about Jing-Mei beginning piano lessons, Jing-Mei’s mother exclaims, “If she had as much talent as she has temper, she would be” what?
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