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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei say she never really did while she practiced for her talent show?
(a) Connect with the music that flowed through her
(b) Worry about how she looked while playing
(c) Think about anything other than the music
(d) Listened to what she was playing

2. What musical term from the story means pertaining to the lowest part in harmonic music?
(a) Scale
(b) Treble
(c) Sonata
(d) Bass

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 jellyfish
(d) A dead person’s

4. In the 1993 film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, what actress played the role of Jing-Mei?
(a) Tsai Chin
(b) Tamlyn Tomita
(c) Kieu Chinh
(d) Ming-Na Wen

5. 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?
(a) Golden silk thread
(b) Hand-sewn little pockets
(c) Gathers in the sleeves
(d) Little slits up the sides

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the story?

2. When was the Magnuson Act signed into law?

3. While watching the young piano prodigy on The Ed Sullivan Show with her mother, Jing-Mei says, “In spite of these warning signs, I wasn’t worried.” Why was Jing-Mei not concerned?

4. What does Jing-Mei say to defend the young piano player on The Ed Sullivan Show when her mother criticizes her performance?

5. How does Jing-Mei say she felt every time she saw the piano in her parents’ living room at the end of the story?

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