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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to circular toys that are twirled around the waist, and that some of the children used at the talent show when Jing-Mei made her piano debut?
(a) Juggling balls
(b) Hula Hoops
(c) Jump ropes
(d) Yo-yos

2. Jing-Mei describes the sound of the “bellows of the foghorns out on the bay” as sounding like what?
(a) The bellows of a church horn
(b) The sound of my fury
(c) The sound of whales crying
(d) The cow jumping over the moon

3. What is the name of Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the story?
(a) Betty
(b) Ying-Ying
(c) Waverly
(d) An-Mei

4. What musical term from the story refers to a composition for one or two instruments, typically comprised of three or four movements in contrasting forms and keys?
(a) Scale
(b) Treble
(c) Sonata
(d) Bass

5. During what years did The Ed Sullivan Show air on television?
(a) 1948-1971
(b) 1960-1970
(c) 1929-1949
(d) 1941-1960

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jing-Mei say she felt when her time to perform her piano solo at the talent show came?

2. 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”?

3. Jing-Mei is surprised after her “talent-show fiasco” that her mother did not do what?

4. How does Jing-Mei describe her family’s television at the time when her mother watched The Ed Sullivan Show?

5. How old does Jing-Mei say she was when her mother told her “Of course you can be prodigy too” in the beginning of the story?

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