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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei say she never really did while she practiced for her talent show?
(a) Worry about how she looked while playing
(b) Think about anything other than the music
(c) Connect with the music that flowed through her
(d) Listened to what she was playing

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

3. What musical term from Jing-Mei’s piano lessons means characterized by abruptness and disconnectedness?
(a) Trill
(b) Staccato
(c) Arpeggio
(d) Reverie

4. What does Jing-Mei’s father do as they travel home after the talent show?
(a) He slaps Jing-Mei
(b) He silently weeps
(c) He apologizes
(d) He hums

5. When was author Amy Tan born?
(a) 1952
(b) 1911
(c) 1965
(d) 1940

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Chong live in relation to Jing-Mei’s family when she’s growing up?

2. Why does Jing-Mei say she sent a tuner to recondition the piano at her parents’ house?

3. How does Jing-Mei say she felt when her time to perform her piano solo at the talent show came?

4. Jing-Mei’s mother tells her when Jing-Mei resists taking piano lessons, “Who ask you be genius? Only ask you be” what?

5. As Jing-Mei walks back to her seat after her performance in the talent show, she overhears a little boy say to his mother, “That was awful.” What does the boy’s mother reply?

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