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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 describes Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons with him as “very strange, always tapping his fingers to the silent music of” what?
(a) His wife’s heartbeat
(b) An invisible orchestra
(c) An era long passed
(d) An imaginary guitar

2. In what year did the film Bright Eyes bring Shirley Temple international fame?
(a) 1951
(b) 1934
(c) 1959
(d) 1948

3. 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) Noe Valley
(c) Potrero Hill
(d) The Mission district

4. Where did author Amy Tan grow up?
(a) Chicago, Illinois
(b) New York, New York
(c) Oakland, California
(d) New Orleans, Louisiana

5. What word from the story means to play music with a vibratory or quavering effect?
(a) Sonata
(b) Bass
(c) Trill
(d) Treble

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jing-Mei describe the piano as standing in her parents’ living room at the end of the story?

2. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong’s mother as having a particular smell about her of what?

3. How many hours a day does Jing-Mei have access to the piano at Mr. Chong’s for practice when she first begins taking lessons?

4. Of the composition that the piano prodigy plays on The Ed Sullivan Show, Jing-Mei says, “I remember the song, because later on” what?

5. What musical term from Jing-Mei’s piano lessons means characterized by abruptness and disconnectedness?

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