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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Examine the following sentence from the narrative: “I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the right track.” What literary device is used in this example?
(a) Jargon
(b) Onomatopoeia
(c) Metaphor
(d) Simile
2. Who performs first at the talent show where Jing-Mei makes her piano debut?
(a) The trombone players
(b) The oldest children
(c) The youngest children
(d) The adults
3. Where does Jing-Mei find her exercise notes and secondhand music books at the end of the story?
(a) In a box in the attic
(b) In a notebook in the basement
(c) Under her mother’s bed
(d) In the piano bench
4. 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 cat running up and down on top of garbage cans
(b) A solitary violin
(c) A chorus of birds singing in the treetops
(d) A crash of bricks against a tin rooftop
5. Of her lack of ambitions in music, Jing-Mei says “I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant” what?
(a) Hymns
(b) Sonatas
(c) Soliloquies
(d) Waltzes
Short Answer Questions
1. Jing-Mei says that as a child “sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient.” What did Jing-Mei’s inner prodigy tell her at this time?
2. 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?
3. Jing-Mei describes sitting down nightly with her mother to examine stories of child prodigies when she was a child. The first of these stories is about a boy who knows all the state capitals and most of the European countries at what age?
4. What musical term from the story means pertaining to the lowest part in harmonic music?
5. What does Jing-Mei say she mostly did do while she was practicing her music for the talent show?
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