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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from the narrative means under a magical trance?
(a) Bewitched
(b) Elated
(c) Engulfed
(d) Trilled

2. What word from the story means to play music with a vibratory or quavering effect?
(a) Sonata
(b) Bass
(c) Treble
(d) Trill

3. When Jing-Mei’s mother still lived in China, her husband was serving as an officer where?
(a) Chongqing
(b) Shanghai
(c) Guangzhou
(d) Beijing

4. 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) Bob Newhart
(c) James Dean
(d) Ed Sullivan

5. What musical term, taught by Mr. Chong to Jing-Mei in their lessons, means pertaining to the highest part in harmonized music?
(a) Treble
(b) Sonata
(c) Bass
(d) Scale

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time does Jing-Mei have access to Mr. Chong’s piano for her daily practice sessions when she begins studying with him?

2. 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?

3. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story that “unlike my mother, I did not believe I could” what?

4. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of “Two Kinds,” “My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. You could open” what?

5. At the talent show where Jing-Mei makes her piano debut, she describes an eleven-year-old boy who won first prize for what performance?

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