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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 say she felt every time she saw the piano in her parents’ living room at the end of the story?
(a) Proud
(b) Sad
(c) Ashamed
(d) Angry

2. How do Jing-Mei and her parents travel home after the talent show?
(a) By limousine
(b) By taxi
(c) By train
(d) By bus

3. Jing-Mei describes the girl playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show as having the sauciness of whom?
(a) Little Orphan Annie
(b) Peter Pan
(c) Shirley Temple
(d) John Wayne

4. When Jing-Mei refuses to practice piano after the talent show, she tells her mother, “Why should I? I’m not” what?
(a) Your daughter
(b) A genius
(c) You
(d) Talented

5. Jing-Mei describes her mother having given her a Bible page to study and then report everything she could remember when she was a child. What does Jing-Mei tell her mother is all she can recall from the passage?
(a) For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith
(b) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
(c) And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose
(d) Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance

Short Answer Questions

1. Jing-Mei is to play a song from what Schumann opus at the talent show?

2. What word from the story mean to find fault in, blame, or censure?

3. What word does Jing-Mei use in describing Mr. Chong’s silent instrumental compositions with a vague and dreamy character?

4. How does Jing-Mei describe her family’s television at the time when her mother watched The Ed Sullivan Show?

5. At the end of the story, Jing-Mei says, “After I had the piano tuned, I opened the lid and touched the keys.” How does she say it sounded?

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