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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long does Jing-Mei say she practiced piano with Mr. Chong before she overheard her mother and Auntie Lindo bragging about their children?
(a) 2 years
(b) 5 months
(c) 1 year
(d) 4 weeks

2. How many mothers comprise the Joy Luck Club in the story?
(a) 6
(b) 7
(c) 4
(d) 5

3. Jing-Mei describes the fingers of Mr. Chong’s mother as feeling like what?
(a) A fat baby’s
(b) The inside of an oyster
(c) A dead person’s
(d) A jellyfish

4. By the time that Jing-Mei is preparing to play in the talent recital, her parents have bought her what kind of secondhand piano?
(a) A Wurlitzer spinet
(b) A Steinway upright
(c) A Förster upright
(d) A Steinway grand

5. How does Jing-Mei describe her mother’s first children in the beginning of the story?
(a) Twin baby girls
(b) A boy and a girl
(c) Three sons
(d) Twin baby boys

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jing-Mei describe Mr. Chong’s eyes as always looking when she began piano lessons with him?

2. When Jing-Mei refuses to practice piano after the talent show, she tells her mother, “Why should I? I’m not” what?

3. Edvard Grieg is considered one of the leading composers of what era?

4. What word from the narrative means under a magical trance?

5. 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?

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