The Joy Luck Club - Jing Mei Woo

Why was Jing Mei Woo taking part in the Joy Luck Club?

• Because they needed extra players

• To learn to play Mah Jong

• Her mother passed away, she was replacing her

• She liked a boy in the club

How many Joy Luck Clubs have there been?

• 6

• 8

• 1

• 2

Why did Jing-mei's mother form the Joy Luck Club?

• To make friends with other young women

• Her husband made her do it

• Because she was in charge of the HOA in her neighborhood

• She had to take over from her mother

Why did the women call it the Joy Luck Club?

• They knew a women named Joy

• The name was passed down from the prior generation

• Because they watched a tv show by the same name

• Because the women hoped to be lucky and that hope was their only joy.

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

• She was very rich in that city

• That she loved the city and wanted to move back there

• She left her two baby daughters behind

• That she left there to marry again

What country does Jing-mei's family come from?

• India

• China

• Pakistan

• Japan

why did the aunties give Jing-mei $1,200 in an envelope?

• So that she can go to college

• Because her rent was due soon

• For her college graduation gift

• To go to China to meet her other sisters

What do the aunties want Jing-mei to tell her sisters in China?

• They want to have her form the club with them

• They want her to tell them about themselves

• They want them to find her a husband

• They want her to tell them about their mother

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

• She tells them that she really doesn't know anything about her mother

• That her mother was evil and she won't tell them about that

• That she has no intentions of going to China

• That she plans on living with them in China

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

• That she will become a doctor someday

• That they will be the only Joy Luck Club

• That she won't stay in China, she'll come back

• She promises that she will tell her sisters everything about her mother.