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What does Amy Tan feature in her novels and stories?

• She skillfully writes every American culture and gender because she can.

• She writes about being Chinese, an American and a woman because she has lived that experience.

• She writes about the her husband and how he doesn't fit into her cultural identity.

• She writes about being wealthy and independent as a child in Europe.

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What was the Cultural Revolution in China during the 1960s?

• An event when Chinese people decided to become independent.

• An event when socialist realism began to be used because it was most appropriate.

• An event when the bourgeoisie, artist and intellectuals were slaughtered.

• An event when Japan launched a full-scale war against China.

What is the yin and the yang in Chinese culture?

• A duality from ancient Chinese philosophy that divides the universe into two opposing forces.

• The yin, feminine, is associated with darkness and passivity, represented by moon, winter, and earth.

• The yang, masculine, is luminous and active, and symbolized by sun, summer, and heaven.

• A traditional Chinese game of skill and luck that features four corners, one for each direction of the wind.

Why did so many people emigrate from China in the 1940s?

• The corruption and political instability, coupled with the establishment of the communist-led People's Republic of

  China.

• The soldiers were told to "not take a single needle or a

  piece of thread from the masses".

• The various Chinatowns were havens within isolated country.

• The end of the Imperial dynastic system and the opening of China to global influences.

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California has the largest Chinese population in the United States.

• True

• False

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The Chinese still refer to San Francisco as "Old Gold Mountain,"

• because the first wave of émigrés had come through the Port of San Francisco at the start of the Gold Rush.

• because America is made of gold.

• because San Francisco immigration officers took all the gold as individuals entered the country.

• because Chinatown, had familiar Chinese customs, food, and merchandise.

What are three possible reasons why tragedies such as the Nanking massacre occurred during the Sino-Japanese War?

• The acts of brutal violence perpetrated against Chinese people by Japanese soldiers were allowed for largely by widespread prejudice.

• For many years, Japan’s foreign policy was defined by the concept of “sakoku,” which literally translates to “closed country.”

• There are several important lessons to be learned from Nanking, "one is that civilization itself is tissue-thin" and "how easily human beings can be encouraged to allow their teenagers to be molded into efficient killing machines, able to suppress their better natures.”

• Chinese casualties in the Second Sino-Japanese War were estimated by Western historians at least 20 million, about half of them civilians. Japanese casualties have been estimated at less than 2 million, all military.

What happens in Kweilin?

• Suyuan celebrates her babies' first birthday. 
• The first Joy Luck Club is created.
• Jing-Mei returns to meet her sisters. 
• Suyuan is arranged to be married by a matchmaker.

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What is the purpose of the original Joy Luck Club?

• To share recipes.
• To raise money for charity.
• To forget their troubles by playing Mah Jong.
• To get to know their neighbors. 

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How did Waverly get her name?

• She was named after an ancestor.
• She was named after her mother's favorite restaurant. 
• She was named for the street her family lived on.
• Her mother found the name on a fortune cookie. 

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