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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What composition does the piano prodigy play by Edvard Grieg on The Ed Sullivan Show as Jing-Mei and her mother watch?
(a) Anita’s Dance
(b) Simon’s Waltz
(c) Pleading Child
(d) Perfectly Contended
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) The living dead and all my past
(b) Worms and toads and slimy things
(c) Phantoms and ghosts and darkness
(d) Demons and beasts and dragons
3. Jing-Mei soon learns after beginning her piano lessons with Mr. Chong that he is deaf. He compares himself to what composer, saying “We’re both listening only in our head”?
(a) Berlioz
(b) Mozart
(c) Beethoven
(d) Chopin
4. What does Jing-Mei realize about the song she finds next to the one she played for the talent show at the end of the story?
(a) It is composed by Mr. Chong
(b) It is composed by her mother
(c) It is the opposite of the previous song
(d) It is the second half of the same song
5. When Jing-Mei’s mother asks her for the capital of Finland, Jing-Mei responds with the capital of what country in the beginning of the story?
(a) Australia
(b) Great Britain
(c) France
(d) Kenya
Short Answer Questions
1. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons with him as “very strange, always tapping his fingers to the silent music of” what?
2. Jing-Mei says in the beginning of “Two Kinds,” “My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. You could open” what?
3. When Jing-Mei’s mother enrolls her in piano lessons, Jing-Mei says, “I can’t play the piano. And even if I could, I wouldn’t” what?
4. At what time does Jing-Mei’s mother insist that Jing-Mei begin her piano practice following the talent show fiasco?
5. Of what ethnicity is the little girl on The Ed Sullivan Show that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano?
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