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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Auntie Lindo’s daughter say matter-of-factly to Jing-Mei after her performance at the talent show?
(a) You should really be a singer
(b) You’re not as talented as you think you are
(c) You aren’t a genius like me
(d) You did a wonderful job

2. What musical term from the story refers to a composition for one or two instruments, typically comprised of three or four movements in contrasting forms and keys?
(a) Scale
(b) Treble
(c) Bass
(d) Sonata

3. How does Jing-Mei described her family’s kitchen table where she would sit after dinner with her mother during her childhood?
(a) Oak
(b) Formica
(c) Plywood
(d) Marble

4. What does Jing-Mei realize about the song she finds next to the one she played for the talent show at the end of the story?
(a) It is composed by her mother
(b) It is the opposite of the previous song
(c) It is the second half of the same song
(d) It is composed by Mr. Chong

5. What does Jing-Mei respond to her mother on the phone when her mother offers her the piano for her birthday and says, “You could been genius if you wanted to”?
(a) I love you
(b) No I couldn’t
(c) Yes, I know
(d) I wish I’d known then

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to circular toys that are twirled around the waist, and that some of the children used at the talent show when Jing-Mei made her piano debut?

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

3. In what year did the film Bright Eyes bring Shirley Temple international fame?

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. The little girl that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show is said to have what kind of haircut?

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