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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many days after the talent show is it when Jing-Mei is surprised that her mother insists she practice piano?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 5

3. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong’s mother as having a particular smell about her of what?
(a) Fresh flowers and stale perfume
(b) Freshly mowed grass and spring
(c) A baby that had done something in its pants
(d) Baked apple pies and the smell of autumn

4. What does the phrase “Ni kan” translate to, according to the narrator?
(a) You watch
(b) Go outside
(c) Listen closely
(d) Call me

5. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story that “unlike my mother, I did not believe I could” what?
(a) Overcome my heritage
(b) Be free
(c) Be talented or worthy
(d) Be anything I wanted to be

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei is to play a song from what Schumann opus at the talent show?

2. What composition does the piano prodigy play by Edvard Grieg on The Ed Sullivan Show as Jing-Mei and her mother watch?

3. What is Jing-Mei doing on the day when her mother insists she go practice at the piano after the talent show fiasco?

4. What does Jing-Mei wear in her hair at the talent show?

5. Edvard Grieg is considered one of the leading composers of what era?

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