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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When the instructor of the beauty school has to cut off Jing-Mei’s hair because of the bad perm, she tells Jing-Mei’s mother that what play is very popular these days?
(a) Cinderella
(b) Peter Pan
(c) Guys and Dolls
(d) Little Orphan Annie
2. When Jing-Mei refuses to practice piano after the talent show, she tells her mother, “Why should I? I’m not” what?
(a) You
(b) Talented
(c) Your daughter
(d) A genius
3. How does Jing-Mei describe the Schumann piece that she was to play at the talent show?
(a) It was a simple, moody piece that sounded more difficult than it was
(b) It was a difficult, multi-layered piece that sounded less difficult than it was
(c) It was a strong and powerful piece, one that I loved
(d) It was a textured piece that showed off skills that I didn’t even have
4. Where does Jing-Mei find her exercise notes and secondhand music books at the end of the story?
(a) In the piano bench
(b) In a notebook in the basement
(c) Under her mother’s bed
(d) In a box in the attic
5. What does Jing-Mei promise herself when she has the revelation while staring in the bathroom mirror as a child?
(a) I won’t become an actress
(b) I won’t get married to him
(c) I won’t let her change me
(d) I won’t allow myself to be a victim
Short Answer Questions
1. What word does Jing-Mei use in describing Mr. Chong’s silent instrumental compositions with a vague and dreamy character?
2. For how long does Jing-Mei say she practiced piano with Mr. Chong before she overheard her mother and Auntie Lindo bragging about their children?
3. What is symbolized by the second song that Jing-Mei finds in her piano workbook at the end of the story?
4. Jing-Mei describes the girl playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show as taking a fancy sweep of a curtsy so that the fluffy skirt of her “dress cascaded slowly to the floor like the petals of” what?
5. What does Jing-Mei say Mr. Chong would balance on her wrists as she practiced piano so that she would keep them still?
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