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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. How old was Shirley Temple when she began her film career?
(a) 8
(b) 3
(c) 10
(d) 5
2. When Jing-Mei argues with her mother over piano practice after the talent show, she says, “As I said these things I got scared. I felt like” what were “crawling out of my chest”?
(a) Demons and beasts and dragons
(b) Phantoms and ghosts and darkness
(c) The living dead and all my past
(d) Worms and toads and slimy things
3. Edvard Grieg was a composer and pianist from what country?
(a) France
(b) Germany
(c) Norway
(d) England
4. 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) Sonata
(c) Scale
(d) Treble
5. Of Auntie Lindo’s daughter, Jing-Mei says “We had grown up together and shared all the closeness of two sisters squabbling over crayons and dolls. In other words, for the most part, we” what?
(a) Pestered each other
(b) Loved each other
(c) Hated each other
(d) Envied each other
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Jing-Mei wear in her hair at the talent show?
2. What is the name of Auntie Lindo’s daughter in the story?
3. 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?
4. How do Jing-Mei and her parents travel home after the talent show?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What innovations in literary style is Amy Tan known for?
2. How does Jing-Mei describe the piano at her parents’ house when she returns following her mother’s death?
3. In what ways can the reader see early in the story that Jing-Mei’s ambitions (and her mother’s) are misplaced?
4. How does Jing-Mei describe her mother’s immigration to America in the opening of the story? What did she leave behind?
5. How does Jing-Mei respond to her mother’s comment about her to Auntie Lindo? What foreshadowing follows this scene?
6. How does the central conflict of the story begin to manifest in Jing-Mei’s mind following her revelation in the mirror?
7. How and when did the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act influence immigration in the U.S.?
8. How does Suyuan Woo develop and maintain her sense of identity in the story?
9. How does Jing-Mei respond to her mother’s news that she will be taking piano lessons?
10. How do Suyuan Woo’s actions in the story encourage the wrong responses from her daughter? What effects does this have on Jing-Mei?
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