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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What answer does Jing-Mei give when her mother asks her early in the story, “What’s the capital of Finland?”
(a) Nairobi
(b) Omaha
(c) Lexington
(d) Rockland

2. What does Auntie Lindo’s daughter say matter-of-factly to Jing-Mei after her performance at the talent show?
(a) You aren’t a genius like me
(b) You should really be a singer
(c) You’re not as talented as you think you are
(d) You did a wonderful job

3. During what years did The Ed Sullivan Show air on television?
(a) 1960-1970
(b) 1929-1949
(c) 1941-1960
(d) 1948-1971

4. 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?
(a) Guys and Dolls
(b) Peter Pan
(c) Little Orphan Annie
(d) Cinderella

5. What musical term from the story refers to a group of notes taken in ascending or descending order within the compass of one octave?
(a) Scale
(b) Bass
(c) Sonata
(d) Treble

Short Answer Questions

1. What musical term from the story means pertaining to the lowest part in harmonic music?

2. Jing-Mei says of Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons that “he must have been younger than I thought, since he” what?

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

4. In the 1993 film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, what actress played the role of Jing-Mei?

5. What word from the story means coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited?

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