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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Jing-Mei soon learns after beginning her piano lessons with Mr. Chong that he is deaf. He compares himself to what composer, saying “We’re both listening only in our head”?
(a) Berlioz
(b) Mozart
(c) Beethoven
(d) Chopin
2. What does Jing-Mei say she never really did while she practiced for her talent show?
(a) Think about anything other than the music
(b) Connect with the music that flowed through her
(c) Listened to what she was playing
(d) Worry about how she looked while playing
3. What answer does Jing-Mei give when her mother asks her early in the story, “What’s the capital of Finland?”
(a) Nairobi
(b) Lexington
(c) Omaha
(d) Rockland
4. When was Shirley Temple born?
(a) 1959
(b) 1928
(c) 1937
(d) 1911
5. After Jing-Mei’s performance at the talent show, she says, “We could have escaped during intermission.” What does she say “must have anchored my parents to their chairs”?
(a) A need to punish me further
(b) A love for music
(c) A desire to not be shown up by their neighbors
(d) Pride and some strange sense of honor
Short Answer Questions
1. 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”?
2. How does Jing-Mei’s mother respond when Jing-Mei throws a fit when she’s told she’ll be taking piano lessons?
3. Jing-Mei describes sitting down nightly with her mother to examine stories of child prodigies when she was a child. The first of these stories is about a boy who knows all the state capitals and most of the European countries at what age?
4. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her she looks like after she’s been given a bad perm at the beauty school?
5. What composition does the piano prodigy play by Edvard Grieg on The Ed Sullivan Show as Jing-Mei and her mother watch?
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