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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jing-Mei describes the girl playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show as taking a fancy sweep of a curtsy so that the fluffy skirt of her “dress cascaded slowly to the floor like the petals of” what?
(a) A giant rose
(b) A large carnation
(c) A large orchid
(d) A giant daisy

2. Jing-Mei is to play a song from what Schumann opus at the talent show?
(a) Album for the Young
(b) Scenes from Childhood
(c) Butterflies
(d) Flower Piece

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

4. Where did author Amy Tan grow up?
(a) Oakland, California
(b) New York, New York
(c) Chicago, Illinois
(d) New Orleans, Louisiana

5. When was the Chinese Exclusion Act signed into law?
(a) 1882
(b) 1915
(c) 1948
(d) 1862

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jing-Mei live while growing up?

2. How old does Jing-Mei say she was when her mother told her “Of course you can be prodigy too” in the beginning of the story?

3. What are the names of the families from the Joy Luck Club that come up to Jing-Mei’s mother and father after Jing-Mei’s performance at the talent show?

4. How long ago has Jing-Mei’s mother died when she sends the tuner to recondition the piano at the end of the story?

5. What musical term in the story refers to the sounding of notes in a chord in rapid succession instead of simultaneously?”

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