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TJLC Structure Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why were the Chinese immigrants fleeing China?

a)

Famine

b)

Plague

c)

Sino- Japanese War

d)

Storms

2.

Which members are part of the Woo Family?

a)

Lena and Ying -Ying

b)

Jing- Mei & Suayuan

c)

Lindo & Waverly

d)

Ani-mei & Rose

3.

How many stories are in the novel?

a)

20

b)

8

c)

10

d)

16

4.

Who is the author of the novel?

a)

Shakespeare

b)

Langston Hughes

c)

Amy Tan

d)

Stephanie Myer

5.

Who is the protagonist of the novel?

a)

An-mei

b)

Jeing- Mei

c)

Waverly

d)

Rose

6.

What is the name of the novel?

a)

The Great Gatsby

b)

Of Mice and Men

c)

Antigone

d)

The Joy Luck Club

7.

Jing-Mei Woo's mother passed away from a _________

a)

Brain Aneurysm

b)

Infectious Disease

c)

Piano Accident

d)

Heart Attack

8.

Suyuan Woo found refuge in _________ China during World War II.

a)

Nanning

b)

Kweilin

c)

Guangdong

d)

Jiangxi

9.

After Suyuan Woo passed, Jing-Mei Woo was invited to take her place at what table?

a)

The Go Fish Table

b)

The Uno Table

c)

The Mahjong Table

d)

The Poker Table

10.

When did Suyuan Woo first create the Joy Luck Club?

a)

After she immigrated to the U.S. and joined a church to learn English.

b)

In 1949 in San Francisco with three other families.

c)

During World War II in the refugee camp.

d)

Suyuan Woo did not create the Joy Luck Club, Lindo Jong did.

11.

What does Suyuan reveal to Jing-Mei about her daughters in China at the end of the World War II story?

a)

She reveals that they are both still alive and she can go visit them.

b)

That Jing-Mei is one of those daughters and the other died.

c)

That she left them behind in order to save herself.

d)

That both daughters were taken from her by the Japanese military.

12.

What do the other women reveal to Jing-Mei Woo at the Mahjong table?

a)

That Jing-Mei is meant to replace Suyuan at the Mahjong table because of an imbalance of players.

b)

That her mother did not actually start the Joy Luck Club, but that her father did.

c)

That she needs to go to China and meet her mother's long-lost daughters.

d)

That her mother owes them money from all the times she lost at Mahjong.

13.

What direction on a compass/map (North, East, South, or West) signifies the beginning?

a)

The South

b)

The East

c)

The West

d)

The North

14.

What signifies Jing-Mei Woo as a "failure" to her mom and Aunts?

a)

She refused to take her piano aspirations and achievements beyond the childhood level.

b)

She did not payback any of the debts she owed to them.

c)

She has not completed any of her college degrees and was recently evicted from her apartment.

d)

She was fired from her last job because of an argument with a customer.

15.

The other families that Jing-Mei Woo refers to as her aunts and uncles are blood-related.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Who did Suyuan Woo constantly compare her daughter, Jing-Mei Woo, to?

a)

Rose Hsu Jordan

b)

Ying-Ying St. Clair

c)

Waverly Jong

d)

She did not compare her daughter to anyone.

17.

What literary device does the author Tan use in her novel?

a)

Aliliteration

b)

Sonnets

c)

cradling

d)

Repetiton

18.

What Point of View is The Joy Luck told?

a)

First Person

b)

Third Person

c)

Second Person

d)

Ominisicent

19.

What is a major conflict in the novel?

a)

Lost Children

b)

A war in China

c)

Daughters are trying to establish their own cultural identity while maintaining traditions

d)

Death of family member

20.

What time period did the mothers grow up

a)

2000s-2010s

b)

1920s-1950s

c)

1980s-1990s

d)

1820s-1830s