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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jing-Mei is to play a song from what Schumann opus at the talent show?
(a) Butterflies
(b) Scenes from Childhood
(c) Flower Piece
(d) Album for the Young

2. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong’s mother as having a particular smell about her of what?
(a) A baby that had done something in its pants
(b) Baked apple pies and the smell of autumn
(c) Freshly mowed grass and spring
(d) Fresh flowers and stale perfume

3. At what time does Jing-Mei’s mother insist that Jing-Mei begin her piano practice following the talent show fiasco?
(a) 7
(b) 4
(c) 3
(d) 6

4. What musical term from the story refers to a group of notes taken in ascending or descending order within the compass of one octave?
(a) Treble
(b) Bass
(c) Sonata
(d) Scale

5. 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?
(a) Horror movies
(b) Training films
(c) Golden cinema
(d) Educational television

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Auntie Lindo’s daughter say matter-of-factly to Jing-Mei after her performance at the talent show?

2. Jing-Mei says that her mother offered to give her the piano for her birthday when she turned how old?

3. Jing-Mei says that soon after her mother got the idea for her to be a Chinese Shirley Temple, she took her to a beauty school in what district?

4. When her mother offered to give her the piano for her birthday, Jing-Mei says she saw this action as what?

5. What does Jing-Mei wear in her hair at the talent show?

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