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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Play for you
(b) Be able to play it well enough for your expectations
(c) Go on TV if you paid me a million dollars
(d) Take lessons from Mr. Chong

2. What does Jing-Mei wear in her hair at the talent show?
(a) A pink bow
(b) A yellow bow
(c) A silver crown
(d) A gold ribbon

3. What is the name of the Schumann piece that Jing-Mei is to play at the talent show?
(a) Peter’s Waltz
(b) Anita's Dance
(c) Perfectly Contended
(d) Pleading Child

4. Of Auntie Lindo, Jing-Mei’s mother says in the beginning of the story, “Her daughter, she is only best” what?
(a) Chess champion
(b) Student
(c) At trying
(d) Tricky

5. Of her childhood and the ambitions that Jing-Mei and her mother felt for her at this time, she says in the beginning of the story, “In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become” what?
(a) Worthwhile
(b) Free
(c) Beautiful
(d) Perfect

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jing-Mei describe the secondhand piano that her parents bought for her?

2. What musical term from the story means pertaining to the lowest part in harmonic music?

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”?

4. Jing-Mei describes the fingers of Mr. Chong’s mother as feeling like what?

5. 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”?

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