Chapter One Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club:

Why was Jing-mei 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” 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

The Joy Luck Club:

How many Joy Luck Clubs have there been?

• Sixteen

• Twelve

• One

• Two

The Joy Luck 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 she and her friends had nothing else to do

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

The Joy Luck Club:

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”

The Joy Luck Club:

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.

The Joy Luck Club:

How do the people at the San Francisco Joy Luck Club eat?

• very daintily

• as though they had been starving

• with many different utensils

• with much belching

The Joy Luck Club:

Why did “the aunties” give Jing-mei $1200 in an envelope?

• They collected the money so that Jing-mei could go to 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 and were paying it back.

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

The Joy Luck Club:

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

The Joy Luck Club:

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.

The Joy Luck Club:

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