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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jing-Mei describes Mr. Chong’s mother as having a particular smell about her of what?
(a) A baby that had done something in its pants
(b) Fresh flowers and stale perfume
(c) Freshly mowed grass and spring
(d) Baked apple pies and the smell of autumn

2. Of her mother’s ambitions and her own as a child, Jing-Mei says, “I was like the Christ child lifted out of the straw manger, crying with” what?
(a) Holy agony
(b) Judicious rage
(c) Holy indignity
(d) Bitter contempt

3. Describing her mother’s reaction to her hurtful words, Jing-Mei says, “she backed out of the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like” what?
(a) A paper sack, dull and soiled
(b) A dandelion in the autumn sunset
(c) A wisp of hair, broken and abandoned
(d) A small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless

4. Who performs first at the talent show where Jing-Mei makes her piano debut?
(a) The youngest children
(b) The adults
(c) The oldest children
(d) The trombone players

5. How long ago has Jing-Mei’s mother died when she sends the tuner to recondition the piano at the end of the story?
(a) A few years ago
(b) A year ago
(c) A few months ago
(d) A week ago

Short Answer Questions

1. What complaint does Jing-Mei’s mother make about the young piano prodigy that she watches on The Ed Sullivan Show?

2. What does Jing-Mei say she put her mother’s jewelry in after her death at the end of the story?

3. What does Jing-Mei wear in her hair at the talent show?

4. How old is the little girl on The Ed Sullivan Show that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano?

5. What answer does Jing-Mei give when her mother asks her early in the story, “What’s the capital of Finland?”

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