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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kinds.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Jing-Mei describe the Schumann piece that she was to play at the talent show?
(a) It was a textured piece that showed off skills that I didn’t even have
(b) It was a strong and powerful piece, one that I loved
(c) It was a difficult, multi-layered piece that sounded less difficult than it was
(d) It was a simple, moody piece that sounded more difficult than it was
2. When Jing-Mei has a revelation while staring at herself in the bathroom mirror as a child, she says, “I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts willed with lots of” what?
(a) Can’ts
(b) Don’ts
(c) Won’ts
(d) Hates
3. When was Edvard Grieg born?
(a) 1843
(b) 1798
(c) 1919
(d) 1935
4. Of the composition that the piano prodigy plays on The Ed Sullivan Show, Jing-Mei says, “I remember the song, because later on” what?
(a) I heard it again on the radio
(b) I had to learn how to play it
(c) It was the song played at my mother’s funeral
(d) I had that song played at my wedding
5. When did the Japanese invasion of China take place, leading Jing-Mei’s mother to flee China?
(a) 1929
(b) 1943
(c) 1937
(d) 1911
Short Answer Questions
1. What literary term refers to a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, idea, setting, or object?
2. Of her lack of ambitions in music, Jing-Mei says “I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant” what?
3. How does Jing-Mei describe the secondhand piano that her parents bought for her?
4. Where did Jing-Mei’s mother abandon her first children, hoping for them to become adopted?
5. What composition does the piano prodigy play by Edvard Grieg on The Ed Sullivan Show as Jing-Mei and her mother watch?
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