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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Jing-Mei’s mother still lived in China, her husband was serving as an officer where?
(a) Chongqing
(b) Beijing
(c) Shanghai
(d) Guangzhou

2. What is the nickname that Auntie Lindo’s daughter is known by in the area where Jing-Mei grows up?
(a) Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Chess Champion
(b) Chinatown’s Littlest “Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Mah-jongg Champion
(c) Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Swimming Star
(d) Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Checkers Champion

3. Jing-Mei says that Mr. Chong would have her curve her hand around what object and then keep that shape while playing chords?
(a) A penny
(b) An apple
(c) A potato
(d) A rope

4. Edvard Grieg is considered one of the leading composers of what era?
(a) The Modernist era
(b) The Romantic era
(c) The Surrealist era
(d) The Postmodernist era

5. Jing-Mei says to her mother as they argue over piano practice after the talent show, “I’ll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!” Her mother responds, “Only two kinds of daughters.” What are these two kinds?
(a) Those who marry young and those who are old widows
(b) Those who carry their name with pride and those who don’t
(c) Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind
(d) Those who are respectful and those who are ungrateful

6. 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?
(a) Confused, lost
(b) Soft, radiant
(c) Angry, powerful
(d) Broken, ashamed

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

8. How old was Shirley Temple when she began her film career?
(a) 5
(b) 3
(c) 8
(d) 10

9. How does Jing-Mei describe the look on her mother’s face when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsey after her piano solo in the talent show?
(a) Joyful
(b) Stricken
(c) Confused
(d) Proud

10. What musical term from the story refers to a group of notes taken in ascending or descending order within the compass of one octave?
(a) Bass
(b) Scale
(c) Sonata
(d) Treble

11. Mr. Chong and Jing-Mei’s mother conspire to have Jing-Mei perform in a talent show held where in the story?
(a) At a small Broadway venue
(b) At the town hall
(c) At Carnegie Hall
(d) In the church hall

12. 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 giant daisy
(c) A large carnation
(d) A large orchid

13. Jing-Mei’s mother tells her when Jing-Mei resists taking piano lessons, “Who ask you be genius? Only ask you be” what?
(a) Prodigy
(b) Passionate
(c) Your best
(d) Responsible

14. What similarity does Amy Tan share with Jing-Mei from “Two Kinds”?
(a) Her mother committed suicide when she was young
(b) Her brother went on to become a lawyer
(c) Her mother left behind children in China
(d) Her father was an Italian dentist

15. How does Jing-Mei described her family’s kitchen table where she would sit after dinner with her mother during her childhood?
(a) Marble
(b) Oak
(c) Formica
(d) Plywood

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jing-Mei say she sent a tuner to recondition the piano at her parents’ house?

2. At what time does Jing-Mei have access to Mr. Chong’s piano for her daily practice sessions when she begins studying with him?

3. When was the Chinese Exclusion Act signed into law?

4. How old is the boy at the talent show that is described as wearing a fake moustache and doing a magic show?

5. What does Mr. Chong live in relation to Jing-Mei’s family when she’s growing up?

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