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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What sensation does Jing-Mei describe as she begins hitting one wrong note after another during the talent show?
(a) A shiver of excitement started in my hands and spread up my arms
(b) A burning sensation in my heart and then an inability to breathe
(c) A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down
(d) I felt a wave of terror and then everything went black
2. How does Jing-Mei describe the Schumann piece that she was to play at the talent show?
(a) It was a simple, moody piece that sounded more difficult than it was
(b) It was a textured piece that showed off skills that I didn’t even have
(c) It was a difficult, multi-layered piece that sounded less difficult than it was
(d) It was a strong and powerful piece, one that I loved
3. What does Jing-Mei say she mostly did do while she was practicing her music for the talent show?
(a) Focused on the keys she was playing
(b) Listened to all the errors she made
(c) Practiced her scales and chords
(d) Daydreamed about being elsewhere
4. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong’s mother as having a particular smell about her of what?
(a) Fresh flowers and stale perfume
(b) Baked apple pies and the smell of autumn
(c) Freshly mowed grass and spring
(d) A baby that had done something in its pants
5. When Jing-Mei has a revelation while staring at herself in the bathroom mirror as a child, she says, “I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts willed with lots of” what?
(a) Won’ts
(b) Can’ts
(c) Hates
(d) Don’ts
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the neighborhood called where Jing-Mei’s family lives when she’s a child?
2. What is Auntie Lindo’s husband’s name?
3. What is Auntie Lindo’s last name in the story?
4. Where did author Amy Tan grow up?
5. Jing-Mei describes the girl playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show as taking a fancy sweep of a curtsy so that the fluffy skirt of her “dress cascaded slowly to the floor like the petals of” what?
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