Joy Luck Club Ch. 1 & 2

Why was Jing-mei woo 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 of 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

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 her friends had nothing else to do

• to giver herself and some friends a diversion from the horrors of war

What surprising information did Jing-mei finally learn from her mother's story about leaving Kweilin?

• She realized that her mother had been a shop girl in Kweilin.

• She realized that her mother's family had been royalty.

• She realized that her mother had left her two daughters behind.

• She realized that her mother was an inveterate liar.

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

• They collected the money so that Jing-mei could goto 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's mother and were paying it back.

• Jing-mei won the mohjong game.

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 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.

What does An-mei remember about her mother from when she was four?

• She remembers her mother got caught gambling.

• She remembers that her mother returned to the family ad was chased away the same night after An-mei was burned by the hot soup.

• She remembers that her mother appeared to her in a dream on her birthday.

• She remembers that her mother and her uncle quarreled about money and her told her to leave unless she could pay him back and restore honor to the family.

After An-mei was burned, what did her grandmother tell her that made her get better fast?

• Her grandmother told her that her mother had left and would forget An-mei if she didn't get better fast.

• Her grandmother told her that she was behaving very badly.

• Her grandmother told her that the ghosts would gt her if she didn't get better fast.

• Her grandmother told her that she would die and become a ghost like her mother.

What does An-mei's mother do to show her love and respect for her own mother?

• She bows deeply and calls her by a special name.

• She gets up early in the morning and fixes her a special meal.

• She returns to her family and cuts off a piece of her own flesh, puts it in a soup, and serves it to her dying mother.

• She agrees to stay away from her daughter forever.

In the story, what does An-mei learn from her own mother?

• She learns that one's love and respect for one's mother is deep within one's bones.

• She learns not to run away from home.

• She learns not to eat hot soup from a big kettle.

• She learns that under no circumstances should she ever quarrel with her uncle.