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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) Alakazam
(c) Voila
(d) Kapow

3. What nickname does Jing-Mei say she secretly gave Mr. Chong when she began taking piano lessons with him?
(a) Sage Chong
(b) Old Chong
(c) Wise Chong
(d) Wicked Chong

4. Jing-Mei says in the end of the story that “unlike my mother, I did not believe I could” what?
(a) Be talented or worthy
(b) Overcome my heritage
(c) Be free
(d) Be anything I wanted to be

5. Edvard Grieg was a composer and pianist from what country?
(a) France
(b) Norway
(c) England
(d) Germany

6. What does Jing-Mei’s mother trade with Mr. Chong so that Jing-Mei may take piano lessons from him?
(a) Medical advice
(b) Housecleaning services
(c) Dog-walking services
(d) Home-cooked meals

7. “Two Kinds” is a short story from Amy Tan’s book The Joy Luck Club. This collection of short stories revolves around the lives of Chinese immigrant women who form a club and play what game?
(a) Chess
(b) Bridge
(c) Mah-jongg
(d) Chinese checkers

8. 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 Chinese Swimming Star
(c) Chinatown’s Littlest “Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Mah-jongg Champion
(d) Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Checkers Champion

9. 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) Polish her daughter’s beauty crowns
(b) Vacuum her daughter’s messes up
(c) Clean her daughter’s pageant dresses
(d) Dust off her trophies

10. What musical term, taught by Mr. Chong to Jing-Mei in their lessons, means pertaining to the highest part in harmonized music?
(a) Bass
(b) Scale
(c) Sonata
(d) Treble

11. Of the composition that the piano prodigy plays on The Ed Sullivan Show, Jing-Mei says, “I remember the song, because later on” what?
(a) I heard it again on the radio
(b) It was the song played at my mother’s funeral
(c) I had that song played at my wedding
(d) I had to learn how to play it

12. What answer does Jing-Mei give when her mother asks her early in the story, “What’s the capital of Finland?”
(a) Lexington
(b) Rockland
(c) Nairobi
(d) Omaha

13. How old is the little girl on The Ed Sullivan Show that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano?
(a) 12
(b) 9
(c) 3
(d) 16

14. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons with him as “very strange, always tapping his fingers to the silent music of” what?
(a) An invisible orchestra
(b) His wife’s heartbeat
(c) An era long passed
(d) An imaginary guitar

15. How many days have passed since Jing-Mei and her mother watched The Ed Sullivan Show when Jing-Mei’s mother tells her that she will be taking piano lessons?
(a) 5
(b) 4
(c) 6
(d) 3

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Jing-Mei use to describe Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the narrative?

2. What musical term from the story means pertaining to the lowest part in harmonic music?

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. By what name does Jing-Mei refer to Mr. Chong’s mother as in the story?

5. At the talent show where Jing-Mei makes her piano debut, she describes an eleven-year-old boy who won first prize for what performance?

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