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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many mothers comprise the Joy Luck Club in the story?
(a) 6
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 7

2. How does Jing-Mei’s mother respond when Jing-Mei throws a fit when she’s told she’ll be taking piano lessons?
(a) She calls her father
(b) She laughs at her
(c) She weeps
(d) She slaps her

3. What does Jing-Mei say she mostly did do while she was practicing her music for the talent show?
(a) Daydreamed about being elsewhere
(b) Listened to all the errors she made
(c) Focused on the keys she was playing
(d) Practiced her scales and chords

4. What sensation does Jing-Mei describe as she begins hitting one wrong note after another during the talent show?
(a) A burning sensation in my heart and then an inability to breathe
(b) A shiver of excitement started in my hands and spread up my arms
(c) A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down
(d) I felt a wave of terror and then everything went black

5. After Jing-Mei’s mother tells her that she has enrolled her in piano lessons, Jing-Mei says, “When my mother told me this, I felt as though I had been” what?
(a) Sent to hell
(b) Sent to heaven
(c) Swept under the rug
(d) Given a kingdom

6. When her mother offered to give her the piano for her birthday, Jing-Mei says she saw this action as what?
(a) A sign of repentance
(b) A sign of hope
(c) A sign of apology
(d) A sign of forgiveness

7. 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?
(a) A mime act
(b) A piano solo
(c) A comedic monologue
(d) A violin solo

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

9. Who does Jing-Mei tell her mother she wishes she were like as they argue about piano practice after the talent show?
(a) Her “dead” daughters
(b) Her first husband
(c) Her great-grandmother
(d) Her distant cousins

10. What does Jing-Mei say she put her mother’s jewelry in after her death at the end of the story?
(a) A box made of tin
(b) A post office box
(c) A bank vault
(d) Special silk pouches

11. Of Auntie Lindo, Jing-Mei’s mother says in the beginning of the story, “Her daughter, she is only best” what?
(a) Tricky
(b) Chess champion
(c) At trying
(d) Student

12. What is the name of Jing-Mei’s mother in “Two Kinds”?
(a) Suyuan Woo
(b) An-Mei Hsu
(c) Wu-Tsing Hsu
(d) Lindo Jong

13. 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) Bass
(d) Scale

14. What college does Jing-Mei say she didn’t get into, causing more disappointment for her mother?
(a) Stanford
(b) Emerson
(c) Yale
(d) Oxford

15. 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) Famous now
(b) Easier to deal with
(c) Rich now
(d) A better daughter

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What is the name of the song that Jing-Mei finds next to the Schumann piece she played for the talent show at the end of the story?

4. At what time does Jing-Mei’s mother insist that Jing-Mei begin her piano practice following the talent show fiasco?

5. After Jing-Mei’s performance at the talent show, she says, “We could have escaped during intermission.” What does she say “must have anchored my parents to their chairs”?

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