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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Japanese invasion of China take place, leading Jing-Mei’s mother to flee China?
(a) 1911
(b) 1929
(c) 1943
(d) 1937

2. How long ago has Jing-Mei’s mother died when she sends the tuner to recondition the piano at the end of the story?
(a) A week ago
(b) A few months ago
(c) A few years ago
(d) A year ago

3. What sensation does Jing-Mei describe as she begins hitting one wrong note after another during the talent show?
(a) A shiver of excitement started in my hands and spread up my arms
(b) A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down
(c) I felt a wave of terror and then everything went black
(d) A burning sensation in my heart and then an inability to breathe

4. 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) Kapow
(b) Alakazam
(c) Voila
(d) Abracadabra

5. When was Shirley Temple born?
(a) 1959
(b) 1928
(c) 1937
(d) 1911

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei is to play a song from what Schumann opus at the talent show?

2. How many days after the talent show is it when Jing-Mei is surprised that her mother insists she practice piano?

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

4. What does Jing-Mei say she put the sweaters her mother knitted in after she died in the end of the story?

5. By the time that Jing-Mei is preparing to play in the talent recital, her parents have bought her what kind of secondhand piano?

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