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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When Jing-Mei stands up after playing her piano solo at the talent show, she realizes what are shaking?
(a) Her shoulders
(b) Her legs
(c) Her ribs
(d) Her hands
2. What are the names of the families from the Joy Luck Club that come up to Jing-Mei’s mother and father after Jing-Mei’s performance at the talent show?
(a) The Yus, the Tsings, and the Lees
(b) The Woos, the Lees, and the Wilsons
(c) The Tsings, the Lees and the Hsus
(d) The Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs
3. 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) Treble
(b) Bass
(c) Sonata
(d) Scale
4. While watching the young piano prodigy on The Ed Sullivan Show with her mother, Jing-Mei says, “In spite of these warning signs, I wasn’t worried.” Why was Jing-Mei not concerned?
(a) Her family couldn’t afford to buy a piano and lessons
(b) Her mother knew she was tone deaf
(c) Her parents believed piano music was immoral
(d) Her mother didn’t enjoy the sound of the piano
5. When her mother offered to give her the piano for her birthday, Jing-Mei says she saw this action as what?
(a) A sign of forgiveness
(b) A sign of repentance
(c) A sign of apology
(d) A sign of hope
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Jing-Mei say to defend the young piano player on The Ed Sullivan Show when her mother criticizes her performance?
2. Of Auntie Lindo’s daughter, Jing-Mei says “We had grown up together and shared all the closeness of two sisters squabbling over crayons and dolls. In other words, for the most part, we” what?
3. How does Jing-Mei say she felt when her time to perform her piano solo at the talent show came?
4. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of the story that at first her mother thought she could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. “We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were” what?
5. How does Jing-Mei describe Auntie Lindo’s smile when she looks out at the audience before beginning her piano solo at the talent show?
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