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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What musical term in the story refers to the sounding of notes in a chord in rapid succession instead of simultaneously?”
(a) Bass
(b) Trill
(c) Arpeggio
(d) Sonata

2. How old was Shirley Temple when she began her film career?
(a) 5
(b) 3
(c) 10
(d) 8

3. Describing her mother’s reaction to her hurtful words, Jing-Mei says, “she backed out of the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like” what?
(a) A dandelion in the autumn sunset
(b) A paper sack, dull and soiled
(c) A wisp of hair, broken and abandoned
(d) A small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless

4. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story that “unlike my mother, I did not believe I could” what?
(a) Be free
(b) Be talented or worthy
(c) Be anything I wanted to be
(d) Overcome my heritage

5. What is the name of the Schumann piece that Jing-Mei is to play at the talent show?
(a) Perfectly Contended
(b) Anita's Dance
(c) Pleading Child
(d) Peter’s Waltz

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei’s mother do to earn money for the family when Jing-Mei is a child?

2. How old is the little girl on The Ed Sullivan Show that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano?

3. What does Jing-Mei say she mostly did do while she was practicing her music for the talent show?

4. What color dress does Jing-Mei wear for her piano debut at the talent show?

5. Of her lack of ambitions in music, Jing-Mei says “I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant” what?

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