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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei say to defend the young piano player on The Ed Sullivan Show when her mother criticizes her performance?
(a) She’s pretty good. Maybe she’s not the best, but she’s trying hard
(b) I’m sure she’s practiced. Her parents have money for good training
(c) I think her playing sounds beautiful. I don’t know what you’re talking about
(d) She’s not that good, but she’s got a great dress and demeanor

2. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her she looks like after she’s been given a bad perm at the beauty school?
(a) A Cupie Doll
(b) An orphan
(c) Raggedy Anne
(d) Negro Chinese

3. As Jing-Mei sits down to begin her piano solo at the talent show, she envisions whom rushing up to introduce her to everyone on TV?
(a) Johnny Carson
(b) James Dean
(c) Bob Newhart
(d) Ed Sullivan

4. 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) Jump ropes
(b) Juggling balls
(c) Hula Hoops
(d) Yo-yos

5. What is the name of the song that Jing-Mei finds next to the Schumann piece she played for the talent show at the end of the story?
(a) Anita’s Dance
(b) Perfectly Contented
(c) Pleading Child
(d) Peter’s Waltz

Short Answer Questions

1. What sensation does Jing-Mei describe as she begins hitting one wrong note after another during the talent show?

2. Jing-Mei describes the fingers of Mr. Chong’s mother as feeling like what?

3. What is the neighborhood called where Jing-Mei’s family lives when she’s a child?

4. When Jing-Mei’s mother asks her for the capital of Finland, Jing-Mei responds with the capital of what country in the beginning of the story?

5. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story that she had never asked her mother about her hope, “And that even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most”. What is the question that so frightened Jing-Mei?

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