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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Edvard Grieg is considered one of the leading composers of what era?
(a) The Surrealist era
(b) The Romantic era
(c) The Postmodernist era
(d) The Modernist era

2. What does Jing-Mei say she mostly did do while she was practicing her music for the talent show?
(a) Practiced her scales and chords
(b) Daydreamed about being elsewhere
(c) Listened to all the errors she made
(d) Focused on the keys she was playing

3. Mr. Chong and Jing-Mei’s mother conspire to have Jing-Mei perform in a talent show held where in the story?
(a) In the church hall
(b) At a small Broadway venue
(c) At the town hall
(d) At Carnegie Hall

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

5. In what year did the film Bright Eyes bring Shirley Temple international fame?
(a) 1959
(b) 1934
(c) 1948
(d) 1951

Short Answer Questions

1. Who performs first at the talent show where Jing-Mei makes her piano debut?

2. Where did Jing-Mei’s mother abandon her first children, hoping for them to become adopted?

3. When Jing-Mei refuses to practice piano after the talent show, she tells her mother, “Why should I? I’m not” what?

4. What does Jing-Mei’s mother die from?

5. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story that she had never asked her mother about her hope, “And that even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most”. What is the question that so frightened Jing-Mei?

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