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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Magnuson Act signed into law?
(a) 1988
(b) 1959
(c) 1961
(d) 1943

2. When was Edvard Grieg born?
(a) 1919
(b) 1843
(c) 1935
(d) 1798

3. What does Jing-Mei say she mostly did do while she was practicing her music for the talent show?
(a) Listened to all the errors she made
(b) Focused on the keys she was playing
(c) Practiced her scales and chords
(d) Daydreamed about being elsewhere

4. Jing-Mei describes her childhood ambitions in the beginning of the story by comparing herself to “Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with” what type of music “filling the air”?
(a) Whispering music
(b) Old-timey piano music
(c) Sparkly cartoon music
(d) Black-and-white movie music

5. When Jing-Mei has a revelation while staring at herself in the bathroom mirror as a child, she says, “I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts willed with lots of” what?
(a) Can’ts
(b) Hates
(c) Won’ts
(d) Don’ts

Short Answer Questions

1. Of her mother’s ambitions and her own as a child, Jing-Mei says, “I was like the Christ child lifted out of the straw manger, crying with” what?

2. 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?

3. As Jing-Mei walks back to her seat after her performance in the talent show, she overhears a little boy say to his mother, “That was awful.” What does the boy’s mother reply?

4. Of what ethnicity is the little girl on The Ed Sullivan Show that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano?

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

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