JLC-Scar quiz

Why was Jing-mei taking part in the Joy Luck Club? 

• because she loved to play games with Chinese people
• because her mother had died and she was asked by her father to be “the fourth corner” at the game
• because there were very high prizes for winning at the club 
• because she promised her mother to attend at least one meeting of the club

How many Joy Luck Clubs have there been?

• Sixteen
• Twelve
• One
• Two

Why did Jing-mei’s mother form the Joy Luck Club in Kweilin?

• to be the first in her neighborhood to form a club
• because she loved to eat
• because she and her friends had nothing else to do
• to give herself and some friends a diversion from the horrors of war

Why did the women in the club call it Joy Luck?

• because the women hoped to be lucky, and that hope was their only joy
• because all of the good names for clubs were already taken
• because they wanted to use some of their own initials in the club name
• because “Joy Luck” in Chinese means “happy ladies”

How do the people at the San Francisco Joy Luck Club eat?

• very daintily
• as though they had been starving
• with many different utensils
• with much belching

Why did “the aunties” give Jing-mei $1200 in an envelope?

• They collected the money so that Jing-mei could go to China and meet her
  half-sisters.
• They won the money in a state lottery and wanted Jing-mei to have it.
• They had borrowed the money from Jing-mei and were paying it back.
• They had owed the money to Jing-mei’s mother.

Why did “the aunties” give Jing-mei $1200 in an envelope?

• They collected the money so that Jing-mei could go to China and meet her
  half-sisters.
• They won the money in a state lottery and wanted Jing-mei to have it.
• They had borrowed the money from Jing-mei and were paying it back.
• They had owed the money to Jing-mei’s mother.

What surprising thing does Jing-mei tell her “aunties” about her own mother?

• She tells them that she didn’t really love her mother.
• She tells them that her mother was much older than they had thought.
• She tells them that she really doesn’t know anything about her mother.
• She tells them that her mother was living under an assumed name.

What does Jing-mei promise “the aunties” at the end of the story?

• that she won’t waste their money
• that she will tell her sisters everything about her mother
• that she will never tell her sisters that their mother is dead
• that she will take good care of her father

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What did An-mei’s mother do to become a ghost?

• She died
• She became a Chinese gambler
• She showed disrespect for her family
• She forgot how to speak the Chinese language