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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 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 crash of bricks against a tin rooftop
(c) A chorus of birds singing in the treetops
(d) A cat running up and down on top of garbage cans
2. 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”?
(a) Phantoms and ghosts and darkness
(b) Worms and toads and slimy things
(c) The living dead and all my past
(d) Demons and beasts and dragons
3. What “magic word” as in conjuring does Jing-Mei use to describe the effect of her having said hurtful things to her mother during their fight about piano practice?
(a) Kapow
(b) Alakazam
(c) Voila
(d) Abracadabra
4. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong’s mother as having a particular smell about her of what?
(a) Freshly mowed grass and spring
(b) A baby that had done something in its pants
(c) Baked apple pies and the smell of autumn
(d) Fresh flowers and stale perfume
5. One of the tests that Jing-Mei’s mother gave her as she attempted to lure out the prodigy in her daughter was predicting the daily temperatures in what three cities?
(a) Los Angeles, New York, and London
(b) New York, Paris, and London
(c) Seattle, Minneapolis, and New York
(d) Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles
Short Answer Questions
1. What word does Jing-Mei use to describe Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the narrative?
2. Jing-Mei describes the fingers of Mr. Chong’s mother as feeling like what?
3. When Jing-Mei’s mother enrolls her in piano lessons, Jing-Mei says, “I can’t play the piano. And even if I could, I wouldn’t” what?
4. What does Jing-Mei respond to her mother on the phone when her mother offers her the piano for her birthday and says, “You could been genius if you wanted to”?
5. Jing-Mei’s mother tells her when Jing-Mei resists taking piano lessons, “Who ask you be genius? Only ask you be” what?
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