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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 her mother’s first children in the beginning of the story?
(a) Three sons
(b) A boy and a girl
(c) Twin baby boys
(d) Twin baby girls

2. When Jing-Mei’s mother still lived in China, her husband was serving as an officer where?
(a) Beijing
(b) Guangzhou
(c) Shanghai
(d) Chongqing

3. What musical term in the story refers to the sounding of notes in a chord in rapid succession instead of simultaneously?”
(a) Arpeggio
(b) Sonata
(c) Trill
(d) Bass

4. The little girl that Jing-Mei and her mother watch playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show is said to have what kind of haircut?
(a) A Shirley Temple haircut
(b) A Raggedy Anne haircut
(c) A Barbie Doll haircut
(d) A Peter Pan haircut

5. 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?
(a) Entrenchment
(b) Prelude
(c) Vignette
(d) Parable

Short Answer Questions

1. What musical term from the story refers to a composition for one or two instruments, typically comprised of three or four movements in contrasting forms and keys?

2. How long ago has Jing-Mei’s mother died when she sends the tuner to recondition the piano at the end of the story?

3. When was Edvard Grieg born?

4. What does Jing-Mei say Mr. Chong would balance on her wrists as she practiced piano so that she would keep them still?

5. How long ago does Jing-Mei say she sent a tuner to her parents’ apartment to recondition the piano at the end of the story?

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