The Joy Luck Club - Part 1 -Feathers from a Thousand Li Away

Why is Jing-Mei (June) now a member of the Joy Luck Club

• Because she was looking to learn how to play Mah Jong

• It's required for college credit

• Her mother passed away and she's taking her place

• She's teaching others how to play

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How many Joy Luck Clubs have there been?

• 6

• 8

• 1

• 2

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

How did Lindo Jong become engaged to her future husband, Tyan-yu?

• He proposed to her after watching a romantic movie.

• A match was arranged through a matchmaker.

• Their mothers discussed their growing love and promised to let them marry.

• They decided to marry after going on many dates when they were in their teens.

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