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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Schumann piece that Jing-Mei is to play at the talent show?
(a) Perfectly Contended
(b) Peter’s Waltz
(c) Anita's Dance
(d) Pleading Child

2. Of her first lessons with Mr. Chong, Jing-Mei says, “I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord and then I just played some nonsense that sounded like” what?
(a) A solitary violin
(b) A cat running up and down on top of garbage cans
(c) A crash of bricks against a tin rooftop
(d) A chorus of birds singing in the treetops

3. How do Jing-Mei and her parents travel home after the talent show?
(a) By taxi
(b) By train
(c) By limousine
(d) By bus

4. Of the composition that the piano prodigy plays on The Ed Sullivan Show, Jing-Mei says, “I remember the song, because later on” what?
(a) I heard it again on the radio
(b) I had that song played at my wedding
(c) It was the song played at my mother’s funeral
(d) I had to learn how to play it

5. How many mothers comprise the Joy Luck Club in the story?
(a) 6
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 7

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jing-Mei describe her mother’s first children in the beginning of the story?

2. While watching the young piano prodigy on The Ed Sullivan Show with her mother, Jing-Mei says, “In spite of these warning signs, I wasn’t worried.” Why was Jing-Mei not concerned?

3. In what year did the film Bright Eyes bring Shirley Temple international fame?

4. 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”?

5. How long ago has Jing-Mei’s mother died when she sends the tuner to recondition the piano at the end of the story?

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