Joy Luck Club

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 Jing-Mein Woo say her mother died from in The Joy Luck Club

• Cancer

• Diabetes

• Aneurysm

• Heart Attack