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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the Chinese Exclusion Act signed into law?
(a) 1862
(b) 1948
(c) 1882
(d) 1915

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

4. What is the name of the street that Jing-Mei’s family lives on when she is a child?
(a) Oxford Street
(b) Sacramento Street
(c) Jefferson Street
(d) Roosevelt Street

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By the time that Jing-Mei is preparing to play in the talent recital, her parents have bought her what kind of secondhand piano?

2. 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?

3. The majority of the narrative of “Two Kind” is related in what tense?

4. What does Jing-Mei promise herself when she has the revelation while staring in the bathroom mirror as a child?

5. What does Jing-Mei say to defend the young piano player on The Ed Sullivan Show when her mother criticizes her performance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What arrangement is made between Suyuan Woo and Mr. Chong in regards to Jing-Mei’s piano study and practice?

2. How does Jing-Mei describe her life as she passed from childhood to adulthood? In what ways does she say she disappointed her mother?

3. What does Jing-Mei describe doing every night with her mother at the kitchen table as a child in the beginning of the story?

4. What does Jing-Mei say to her mother to hurt her during their conflict in the climax of the story? How does Suyuan respond?

5. How does Jing-Mei describe the piano at her parents’ house when she returns following her mother’s death?

6. Why do you think the author chose to set the story (and the others in The Joy Luck Club) in San Francisco?

7. What does Jing-Mei discover about playing the piano as she begins her studies with Mr. Chong?

8. What does Jing-Mei overhear her mother saying about her to Auntie Lindo midway through the story?

9. How does Jing-Mei feel as she prepares to perform at the talent show?

10. How does Jing-Mei describe the process of playing scales for Mr. Chong?

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