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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 do with the Chinese silk dresses she finds when sorting through her mother’s things at the end of the story?
(a) She takes them home with her
(b) She gives them to her sister
(c) She gives them to her father
(d) She sells them

2. Where does Jing-Mei live while growing up?
(a) Oakland, California
(b) Los Angeles, California
(c) San Francisco, California
(d) Sacramento, California

3. Why does Jing-Mei say she sent a tuner to recondition the piano at her parents’ house?
(a) For purely sentimental reasons
(b) Because I wanted to sell it
(c) Because I wanted to have it appraised
(d) Because I planned to play it again

4. What musical term in the story refers to the sounding of notes in a chord in rapid succession instead of simultaneously?”
(a) Bass
(b) Trill
(c) Arpeggio
(d) Sonata

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jing-Mei describe Auntie Lindo’s smile when she looks out at the audience before beginning her piano solo at the talent show?

2. How does Jing-Mei describe the look on her mother’s face when Jing-Mei looks up from her curtsey after her piano solo in the talent show?

3. When was Shirley Temple born?

4. 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?

5. At what time does Jing-Mei have access to Mr. Chong’s piano for her daily practice sessions when she begins studying with him?

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