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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the talent show where Jing-Mei makes her piano debut, she describes an eleven-year-old boy who won first prize for what performance?
(a) A piano solo
(b) A mime act
(c) A violin solo
(d) A comedic monologue

2. What answer does Jing-Mei give when her mother asks her early in the story, “What’s the capital of Finland?”
(a) Omaha
(b) Nairobi
(c) Lexington
(d) Rockland

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

4. For how long does Jing-Mei say she practiced piano with Mr. Chong before she overheard her mother and Auntie Lindo bragging about their children?
(a) 4 weeks
(b) 1 year
(c) 2 years
(d) 5 months

5. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story that she had never asked her mother about her hope, “And that even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most”. What is the question that so frightened Jing-Mei?
(a) Why she had given up hope
(b) Why she wanted to hurt me
(c) Why she had believed in me
(d) Why she had left her children behind

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei describes her mother having given her a Bible page to study and then report everything she could remember when she was a child. What does Jing-Mei tell her mother is all she can recall from the passage?

2. What does Jing-Mei’s father do as they travel home after the talent show?

3. Who does Jing-Mei tell her mother she wishes she were like as they argue about piano practice after the talent show?

4. When Jing-Mei was helping her father get things in order after Jing-Mei’s mother died, she says she found “some old Chinese silk dresses, the kind with” what?

5. Who performs first at the talent show where Jing-Mei makes her piano debut?

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