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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jing-Mei describe her school achievements in “Two Kinds”?
(a) I got straight A’s
(b) I skipped two grades
(c) I didn’t get straight A’s
(d) I flunked every class twice

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

3. What is symbolized by the second song that Jing-Mei finds in her piano workbook at the end of the story?
(a) Her mother’s ambitions for her
(b) The inner anguish she suffered as a child
(c) The love she had for her father
(d) The inner peace she’s found in her life

4. Jing-Mei describes sitting down nightly with her mother to examine stories of child prodigies when she was a child. The first of these stories is about a boy who knows all the state capitals and most of the European countries at what age?
(a) 3
(b) 5
(c) 2
(d) 12

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

6. What illness did Jing-Mei’s mother contract while trying to flee China?
(a) Dysentery
(b) Malaria
(c) Gangrene
(d) Pneumonia

7. After Jing-Mei’s hair debacle where it was cut off like a boy’s, what statement does she make about her feelings of the haircut?
(a) I liked the haircut and it made me actually look forward to my future fame
(b) I hated the haircut and it made me feel like I would never live up to my mother’s expectations
(c) I liked the haircut and felt like I would now no longer be bullied in school
(d) I thought the haircut made me look like a villain from a Disney movie

8. Why does Jing-Mei say she sent a tuner to recondition the piano at her parents’ house?
(a) For purely sentimental reasons
(b) Because I wanted to sell it
(c) Because I wanted to have it appraised
(d) Because I planned to play it again

9. When Jing-Mei and her mother get into an argument about Jing-Mei beginning piano lessons, Jing-Mei’s mother exclaims, “If she had as much talent as she has temper, she would be” what?
(a) A better daughter
(b) Easier to deal with
(c) Famous now
(d) Rich now

10. When was Shirley Temple born?
(a) 1911
(b) 1937
(c) 1928
(d) 1959

11. Jing-Mei describes the girl playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show as having the sauciness of whom?
(a) John Wayne
(b) Little Orphan Annie
(c) Peter Pan
(d) Shirley Temple

12. Jing-Mei says that soon after her mother got the idea for her to be a Chinese Shirley Temple, she took her to a beauty school in what district?
(a) SoHo
(b) The Mission district
(c) Potrero Hill
(d) Noe Valley

13. In what year did the film Bright Eyes bring Shirley Temple international fame?
(a) 1948
(b) 1934
(c) 1951
(d) 1959

14. What is Jing-Mei’s last name in the story?
(a) Chong
(b) Jong
(c) Hsu
(d) Woo

15. What complaint does Jing-Mei’s mother make about the young piano prodigy that she watches on The Ed Sullivan Show?
(a) Play note right, but doesn’t sound good! No singing sound
(b) Play wrong notes. Chords are all off
(c) Play not too good, but has character
(d) Play wrong notes and smiles without meaning to

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jing-Mei describe the Schumann piece that she was to play at the talent show?

2. Edvard Grieg is considered one of the leading composers of what era?

3. How many mothers comprise the Joy Luck Club in the story?

4. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong’s mother as having a particular smell about her of what?

5. What sensation does Jing-Mei describe as she begins hitting one wrong note after another during the talent show?

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