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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What nickname does Jing-Mei say she secretly gave Mr. Chong when she began taking piano lessons with him?
(a) Sage Chong
(b) Wicked Chong
(c) Wise Chong
(d) Old Chong
2. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong’s mother as having a particular smell about her of what?
(a) Freshly mowed grass and spring
(b) A baby that had done something in its pants
(c) Baked apple pies and the smell of autumn
(d) Fresh flowers and stale perfume
3. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons with him as “very strange, always tapping his fingers to the silent music of” what?
(a) His wife’s heartbeat
(b) An invisible orchestra
(c) An era long passed
(d) An imaginary guitar
4. 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?
(a) She was terrible
(b) She was wonderful
(c) Well, she certainly tried
(d) Shh. She’s right there
5. What “magic word” as in conjuring does Jing-Mei use to describe the effect of her having said hurtful things to her mother during their fight about piano practice?
(a) Abracadabra
(b) Alakazam
(c) Kapow
(d) Voila
Short Answer Questions
1. When the instructor of the beauty school has to cut off Jing-Mei’s hair because of the bad perm, she tells Jing-Mei’s mother that what play is very popular these days?
2. What word does Jing-Mei use in describing Mr. Chong’s silent instrumental compositions with a vague and dreamy character?
3. When Jing-Mei was helping her father get things in order after Jing-Mei’s mother died, she says she found “some old Chinese silk dresses, the kind with” what?
4. From what opera does Jing-Mei describe the “breasted girl with white makeup” singing from at the talent show?
5. What is the neighborhood called where Jing-Mei’s family lives when she’s a child?
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