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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Jing-Mei sits down to begin her piano solo at the talent show, she envisions whom rushing up to introduce her to everyone on TV?
(a) Johnny Carson
(b) Bob Newhart
(c) Ed Sullivan
(d) James Dean

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

3. How many hours a day does Jing-Mei have access to the piano at Mr. Chong’s for practice when she first begins taking lessons?
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 1
(d) 2

4. Auntie Lindo tells Jing-Mei’s mother that all day long she has no time to do anything but what, when she is bragging about her daughter?
(a) Vacuum her daughter’s messes up
(b) Clean her daughter’s pageant dresses
(c) Polish her daughter’s beauty crowns
(d) Dust off her trophies

5. What does Jing-Mei wear in her hair at the talent show?
(a) A yellow bow
(b) A gold ribbon
(c) A silver crown
(d) A pink bow

Short Answer Questions

1. What college does Jing-Mei say she didn’t get into, causing more disappointment for her mother?

2. How does Jing-Mei describe her family’s television at the time when her mother watched The Ed Sullivan Show?

3. What does Jing-Mei respond to her mother on the phone when her mother offers her the piano for her birthday and says, “You could been genius if you wanted to”?

4. Jing-Mei describes her childhood ambitions in the beginning of the story by comparing herself to “Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with” what type of music “filling the air”?

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

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