The Joy Luck Club Part I

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

• the secrets of the Woo family

• about her mother

• about America

• about how their mother didn’t want them

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

• that she won’t waste their money

• that she will tell her sisters everything about her mother

• that she will never tell her sisters that their mother is dead

• that she will take good care of her father

Why did the women in the club call it Joy Luck?

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

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

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

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

Why did Jing-mei’s mother form the Joy Luck Club in Kweilin?

• because she loved to eat

• to be the first in her neighborhood to form a club

• because she and her friends had nothing else to do

• to give herself and some friends a diversion from the horrors of war