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The Joy Luck Club Quiz 1
1.
What does the swan in the prologue represent?
The beauty of China, now lost through assimilation.
The effects of the cruelty of American immigration officials.
The daughters' vanity in trying to become more than their mothers would ever be.
The mothers' expectations for their American daughters.
2.
Who were the original members of the Joy Luck Club?
Suyuan, An-mei, Lindo, and Ying-ying.
Four legendary women in Kweilin, about whom Suyuan read.
June, An-mei, Lindo, and Ying-ying.
Suyuan and three other women who lived in Kweilin.
3.
Why was the Joy Luck Club begun originally?
Because all the other residents of Kweilin had similar clubs.
To maintain good spirits despite the horrors of the Second World War.
To pass time in the caves during bombing raids.
To create a Chinese legacy for the daughters to continue.
4.
What do the mothers give Jing-mei at the end of the meeting?
Good-luck foods and money to take home to her husband.
Enough money to start a new Joy Luck club with the other daughters.
A Mah Jong set of her own.
Enough money to visit her long-lost sisters in China.
5.
Why doesn't Jing-mei know her Chinese sisters?
Her mother never tried to look for them, and she told June never to speak of them.
She never knew they existed.
They are not her real sisters but old friends of Suyuan's from Kweilin.
Her mother only recently managed to find them.
6.
Why must there always be four members of the Joy Luck Club?
One for each corner of the Mah Jong table.
One for each week of the month.
One for each season of the year.
One for each of the four elements of the soul.
7.
According to Jing-mei, what defined her mother's relationships with the other members of the Joy Luck Club?
Exclusivity.
Acceptance.
Consolation.
Competition.
8.
Why did Jing-mei think that her mother's Kweilin story was a fairy tale?
She told it to her in Chinese, like all other fairy tales.
She could not believe such a painful story was real.
She told it to her at bedtime.
She always changed the ending.
9.
How did An-mei get the scar on her neck?
She was born with it, causing disgrace in her family.
In the midst of a family argument, hot soup accidentally spilled all over her neck.
She cut flesh from her neck in an attempt to cure her mother's illness.
Popo spilled hot soup on her neck to spite An-mei's mother.
10.
Why did An-mei's mother cut flesh from her arm?
To make a sacrifice to the spirits of her ancestors.
As a debt for disgracing her family.
To make a curative soup for Popo.
To make An-mei feel better about the scar on her neck.
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