Mid book check Joy Luck

 Why was Jing-mei taking part in the Joy Luck Club

• because she loved to play games with her relatives

  
  

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

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How many Joy Luck Clubs have there been?

• 16

• 12

• 1

• 2

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Scar told by An-Mei Hsu

~~~What did An-mei’s mother do to become a ghost?

• She died

• she became a local gambler

• she showed disrespect for her family

•  She forgot how to speak the Chinese language

In Scar, what is the definition of shou?

• It means one will experience great happiness.

•  It means one can never come back home.

  
  

•  It means one will shed many tears.

  
  

• It means one has respect for ancestors or family.

  
  

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In Scar 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 An-mei didn’t get better fast.

  
  

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

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

•  Her grandmother told her that she would die.

  
  

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The Red Candle - 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 when Lindo was two and Tyan-yu was only one.

  
  

• 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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The Red Candle -  What gift did Lindo’s mother give to Lindo as the family moved away?

• A huge snake

• a necklace made out of a tablet of red jade

  
  

•  a pair of diamond earrings

• an envelop full of money

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.What is the ultimate fate of the Moon Lady?

• to forever seek her own selfish wishes

• to have to live her life as an imposter

•  to lose her voice and be unable to sing

• To live on the moon while her husband lives on the sun

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Rules of the game - What was “the art of invisible strength” that Waverly’s mother taught her?

•  It was a special strength that comes from angels.

• It was the strength that comes from lifting weights.

•  It was a strategy for winning arguments and gaining respect from others.

  
  

• It was a way of never losing even one chess tournament.

  
  

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 The Voice from the wall - How did the girl from next door get out of Lena’s bedroom?

• She climbed out onto the fire escape and back into her own apartment.

• She climbed out onto a very tall tree.

• She just went downstairs and out the front door.

  
  

•  She jumped out of a window onto a soft awning below.

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