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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 is to play a song from what Schumann opus at the talent show?
(a) Butterflies
(b) Flower Piece
(c) Scenes from Childhood
(d) Album for the Young

2. As Jing-Mei walks back to her seat after her performance in the talent show, she overhears a little boy say to his mother, “That was awful.” What does the boy’s mother reply?
(a) She was terrible
(b) Shh. She’s right there
(c) Well, she certainly tried
(d) She was wonderful

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

4. What word does Jing-Mei use in describing Mr. Chong’s silent instrumental compositions with a vague and dreamy character?
(a) Reverie
(b) Trill
(c) Staccato
(d) Arpeggio

5. What color dress does Jing-Mei describe the girl wearing that she watches playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show with her mother?
(a) Blue
(b) Green
(c) White
(d) Yellow

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days have passed since Jing-Mei and her mother watched The Ed Sullivan Show when Jing-Mei’s mother tells her that she will be taking piano lessons?

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

3. Of her mother’s ambitions and her own as a child, Jing-Mei says, “I was like the Christ child lifted out of the straw manger, crying with” what?

4. How does Jing-Mei describe the look on her mother’s face when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsey after her piano solo in the talent show?

5. What does Jing-Mei kick under her feet as her mother drags her to the piano for practice after the talent show?

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