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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Edvard Grieg is considered one of the leading composers of what era?
(a) The Postmodernist era
(b) The Modernist era
(c) The Surrealist era
(d) The Romantic era

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 bay windows
(b) In front of the door to the kitchen
(c) In front of the staircase
(d) In front of the television

4. How old is the boy at the talent show that is described as wearing a fake moustache and doing a magic show?
(a) 18
(b) 12
(c) 16
(d) 10

5. What complaint does Jing-Mei’s mother make about the young piano prodigy that she watches on The Ed Sullivan Show?
(a) Play wrong notes. Chords are all off
(b) Play wrong notes and smiles without meaning to
(c) Play not too good, but has character
(d) Play note right, but doesn’t sound good! No singing sound

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jing-Mei’s mother tell her she looks like after she’s been given a bad perm at the beauty school?

2. Of her first lessons with Mr. Chong, Jing-Mei says, “I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord and then I just played some nonsense that sounded like” what?

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

4. What college does Jing-Mei say she didn’t get into, causing more disappointment for her mother?

5. “Two Kinds” is a short story that was initially published in what periodical in February 1989?

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