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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 lack of ambitions in music, Jing-Mei says “I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant” what?
(a) Soliloquies
(b) Sonatas
(c) Hymns
(d) Waltzes
2. When Jing-Mei’s mother still lived in China, her husband was serving as an officer where?
(a) Guangzhou
(b) Shanghai
(c) Chongqing
(d) Beijing
3. Where does Jing-Mei find her exercise notes and secondhand music books at the end of the story?
(a) Under her mother’s bed
(b) In a box in the attic
(c) In a notebook in the basement
(d) In the piano bench
4. How does Jing-Mei describe the Schumann piece that she was to play at the talent show?
(a) It was a strong and powerful piece, one that I loved
(b) It was a simple, moody piece that sounded more difficult than it was
(c) It was a textured piece that showed off skills that I didn’t even have
(d) It was a difficult, multi-layered piece that sounded less difficult than it was
5. When the instructor of the beauty school has to cut off Jing-Mei’s hair because of the bad perm, she tells Jing-Mei’s mother that what play is very popular these days?
(a) Guys and Dolls
(b) Peter Pan
(c) Cinderella
(d) Little Orphan Annie
Short Answer Questions
1. 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”?
2. What does Jing-Mei kick under her feet as her mother drags her to the piano for practice after the talent show?
3. What musical term, taught by Mr. Chong to Jing-Mei in their lessons, means pertaining to the highest part in harmonized music?
4. How old does Jing-Mei say she was when her mother told her “Of course you can be prodigy too” in the beginning of the story?
5. When Jing-Mei and her mother get into an argument about Jing-Mei beginning piano lessons, Jing-Mei’s mother exclaims, “If she had as much talent as she has temper, she would be” what?
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