JLC: The Joy Luck Club

Where did the story take place? (Foundation, reading for stated info, hint: P.2)

• Kweilin

• Chungking

• Los Angeles

• San Francisco

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Why was Jing-mei taking part in the Joy Luck Club? (Foundation, reading for a stated reason, hint: P.2)

• because she loved to play games with Chinese people

• because there were very high prizes for winning at the club

• because her mother had died and she was asked by her father to be “the fourth corner” at the game

• because she promised her mother to attend at least one meeting of the club

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How many Joy Luck Clubs have there been? (NICER, reading for stated info, hint: P.2-5)

• one

• two

• three

• twelve

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How many babies did Suyuan have when she was in Kweilin? (Foundation, reading for stated info, hint: P.3)

• one

• two

• three

• four

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Why did the women in the club call it Joy Luck? (NICER, reading for a stated reason, hint: P.4-5)

• because the women hoped to be lucky, and that hope was their only joy

• because they wanted to use some of their own initials in the club name

• because all of the good names for clubs were already taken

• because “Joy Luck” in Chinese means “happy ladies”

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6. What was the main "push" factor that forced Suyuan to migrate? (Supreme, inference, hint: P.3-8)

• poverty

• homelessness

• mental illness

• war

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What surprising information did Jing-mei finally learn from her mother’s story about leaving Kweilin? (NICER: simple inference, hint: P.11-12)

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

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

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

• She realized that her mother was an inveterate liar.

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Why did “the aunties” give Jing-mei $1200 in an envelope? (Foundation, reading for stated info, hint: P.12)

• They collected the money so that Jing-mei could go to China and meet her half-sisters.

• They had borrowed the money from Jing-mei and were paying it back.

• They won the money in a state lottery and wanted Jing-mei to have it.

• They had owed the money to Jing-mei’s mother.

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9. What do “the aunties” want Jing-mei to tell her sisters in China? (Foundation, reading for stated info, hint: P.12)

• about America

• about her mother

• the secrets of the Woo family

• about how their mother didn’t want them

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