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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of Auntie Lindo’s daughter, Jing-Mei says “We had grown up together and shared all the closeness of two sisters squabbling over crayons and dolls. In other words, for the most part, we” what?
(a) Envied each other
(b) Loved each other
(c) Pestered each other
(d) Hated each other

2. What color dress does Jing-Mei wear for her piano debut at the talent show?
(a) Yellow
(b) Red
(c) Blue
(d) White

3. When Jing-Mei stands up after playing her piano solo at the talent show, she realizes what are shaking?
(a) Her hands
(b) Her legs
(c) Her shoulders
(d) Her ribs

4. The Magnuson Act was passed in the year that China became what?
(a) An official ally to the Germans in World War II
(b) An official ally to the U.S. in the Korean War
(c) An official ally to the U.S. in World War II
(d) An official ally to the U.S. in World War I

5. What does Jing-Mei kick under her feet as her mother drags her to the piano for practice after the talent show?
(a) The cat
(b) The bedspread
(c) The piano bench
(d) Throw rugs

Short Answer Questions

1. Of her lack of ambitions in music, Jing-Mei says “I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant” what?

2. How does Jing-Mei describe the secondhand piano that her parents bought for her?

3. Where did Jing-Mei’s mother abandon her first children, hoping for them to become adopted?

4. When Jing-Mei has a revelation while staring at herself in the bathroom mirror as a child, how does she describe the girl who is staring back at her?

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

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