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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Jing-Mei tell her mother she wishes she were like as they argue about piano practice after the talent show?
(a) Her “dead” daughters
(b) Her distant cousins
(c) Her great-grandmother
(d) Her first husband

2. What composition does the piano prodigy play by Edvard Grieg on The Ed Sullivan Show as Jing-Mei and her mother watch?
(a) Simon’s Waltz
(b) Pleading Child
(c) Perfectly Contended
(d) Anita’s Dance

3. Where does Jing-Mei find her exercise notes and secondhand music books at the end of the story?
(a) Under her mother’s bed
(b) In the piano bench
(c) In a box in the attic
(d) In a notebook in the basement

4. One of the tests that Jing-Mei’s mother gave her as she attempted to lure out the prodigy in her daughter was predicting the daily temperatures in what three cities?
(a) Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles
(b) New York, Paris, and London
(c) Seattle, Minneapolis, and New York
(d) Los Angeles, New York, and London

5. When Jing-Mei’s mother still lived in China, her husband was serving as an officer where?
(a) Chongqing
(b) Shanghai
(c) Guangzhou
(d) Beijing

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the story means coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited?

2. 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?

3. What complaint does Jing-Mei’s mother make about the young piano prodigy that she watches on The Ed Sullivan Show?

4. How old was Shirley Temple when she began her film career?

5. 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?

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