1. 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) The living dead and all my past
(b) Worms and toads and slimy things
(c) Phantoms and ghosts and darkness
(d) Demons and beasts and dragons

2. What does Jing-Mei’s mother do to earn money for the family when Jing-Mei is a child?
(a) She cooks at a hotel
(b) She cleans houses
(c) She teaches English
(d) She teaches piano

3. Jing-Mei says that as a child “sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient.” What did Jing-Mei’s inner prodigy tell her at this time?
(a) Tell her to stop making you do this. This is taking forever
(b) If I’m not on stage in a year, I’ll never get there
(c) If you don’t hurry up and get me out of here, I’m disappearing for good
(d) I’m dying of boredom. When are we going to do something fun?

4. Jing-Mei says of Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons that “he must have been younger than I thought, since he” what?
(a) Had no children and was not yet married
(b) Had two young children and a young wife
(c) Had sisters that were my mother’s age
(d) Lived with his mother and was not yet married

5. What nickname does Jing-Mei say she secretly gave Mr. Chong when she began taking piano lessons with him?
(a) Sage Chong
(b) Old Chong
(c) Wise Chong
(d) Wicked Chong