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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Soliloquies
(b) Waltzes
(c) Hymns
(d) Sonatas

2. 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 small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless
(c) A dandelion in the autumn sunset
(d) A wisp of hair, broken and abandoned

3. Where does Jing-Mei describe the piano as standing in her parents’ living room at the end of the story?
(a) In front of the television
(b) In front of the door to the kitchen
(c) In front of the bay windows
(d) In front of the staircase

4. How many days have passed since Jing-Mei and her mother watched The Ed Sullivan Show when Jing-Mei’s mother tells her that she will be taking piano lessons?
(a) 3
(b) 6
(c) 5
(d) 4

5. In the 1993 film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, what actress played the role of Jing-Mei?
(a) Tamlyn Tomita
(b) Ming-Na Wen
(c) Tsai Chin
(d) Kieu Chinh

Short Answer Questions

1. From what opera does Jing-Mei describe the “breasted girl with white makeup” singing from at the talent show?

2. What is the name of the song that Jing-Mei finds next to the Schumann piece she played for the talent show at the end of the story?

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

4. Jing-Mei says of Mr. Chong when she began piano lessons that “he must have been younger than I thought, since he” what?

5. What is Auntie Lindo’s husband’s name?

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