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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of her first lessons with Mr. Chong, Jing-Mei says, “I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord and then I just played some nonsense that sounded like” what?
(a) A solitary violin
(b) A crash of bricks against a tin rooftop
(c) A chorus of birds singing in the treetops
(d) A cat running up and down on top of garbage cans

2. What U.S. President signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law?
(a) Teddy Roosevelt
(b) Chester A. Arthur
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt
(d) James McCarthy

3. Jing-Mei describes her childhood ambitions in the beginning of the story by comparing herself to “Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with” what type of music “filling the air”?
(a) Old-timey piano music
(b) Black-and-white movie music
(c) Sparkly cartoon music
(d) Whispering music

4. When Jing-Mei argues with her mother over piano practice after the talent show, she says, “As I said these things I got scared. I felt like” what were “crawling out of my chest”?
(a) Worms and toads and slimy things
(b) Phantoms and ghosts and darkness
(c) Demons and beasts and dragons
(d) The living dead and all my past

5. As Jing-Mei walks back to her seat after her performance in the talent show, she overhears a little boy say to his mother, “That was awful.” What does the boy’s mother reply?
(a) She was terrible
(b) She was wonderful
(c) Well, she certainly tried
(d) Shh. She’s right there

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does Jing-Mei refer to Mr. Chong’s mother as in the story?

2. What does Jing-Mei promise herself when she has the revelation while staring in the bathroom mirror as a child?

3. Jing-Mei describes the girl playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show as having the sauciness of whom?

4. How does Jing-Mei describe the look on her mother’s face when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsey after her piano solo in the talent show?

5. What are the names of the families from the Joy Luck Club that come up to Jing-Mei’s mother and father after Jing-Mei’s performance at the talent show?

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