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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is symbolized by the second song that Jing-Mei finds in her piano workbook at the end of the story?
(a) Her mother’s ambitions for her
(b) The love she had for her father
(c) The inner peace she’s found in her life
(d) The inner anguish she suffered as a child

3. What U.S. President signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt
(b) Chester A. Arthur
(c) Teddy Roosevelt
(d) James McCarthy

4. As Jing-Mei walks back to her seat after her performance in the talent show, she overhears a little boy say to his mother, “That was awful.” What does the boy’s mother reply?
(a) She was terrible
(b) She was wonderful
(c) Well, she certainly tried
(d) Shh. She’s right there

5. What does Jing-Mei say she never really did while she practiced for her talent show?
(a) Connect with the music that flowed through her
(b) Listened to what she was playing
(c) Worry about how she looked while playing
(d) Think about anything other than the music

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. What does Mr. Chong live in relation to Jing-Mei’s family when she’s growing up?

4. Jing-Mei describes her childhood ambitions in the beginning of the story by comparing herself to “Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with” what type of music “filling the air”?

5. When Jing-Mei stands up after playing her piano solo at the talent show, she realizes what are shaking?

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