The Joy Luck Club Quiz
In the story 'The Red Candle,' what did the candle symbolize?
Fertility
Loyalty
Permanence of the marriage
Luck
Why did Waverly originally want to not play in the chess tournaments?
The tournaments were too far away.
She wasn't as good as everybody else.
It was too expensive to play.
She didn't think her mother would let her.
Which mother-daughter pair both felt a loss of identity?
Suyuan and Jing-mei.
An-mei and Rose.
Ying-ying and Lena.
Lindo and Waverly.
Which of the mothers lost their identity when their husband changed their name and birth year?
An-mei
Suyuan
Lindo
Ying-ying
What incident is Ying-ying referring to when she says "My fault, my fault I knew this before it happened... I did nothing to prevent it."
The lose of her unborn child.
Losing Lena in the street.
Her husband's death.
Their house catching on fire.
Which of the following pairs is correct?
Lindo and Ted.
Suyuan and Canning.
Rose and Vincent.
Lena and Arnold.
In "Best quality", the families get together for New Years where crabs were served at their dinner. What do the crabs represent?
Luck
Money
Long Life
Fertility
Where do the families live in America?
Los Angeles, California
San Francisco, California
Miami, Florida
San Diego, California
Who was Amah?
Ying-Ying's childhood nanny.
Waverly's best opponent.
Chwun Hwa and Chwun Yu's adopted mother.
June's piano teacher.
Who said, "This is because...because if you ask it...it is no longer a wish but a selfish desire."
Amah
Ying-ying's mother
The Moon Lady
Ying-ying
What do they mean when they call someone a ghost?
Someone who is not to be spoken about.
Someone who died.
Someone who was taken/kidnapped.
Someone lost and withdrawn.
Why was the Joy Luck Club created?
To remind them of their Chinese heritage.
To have a good meal every once and a while.
To distract the women from the Sino-Japanese War.
To get their daughters integrated into the Chinese culture.
Why do Teresa and her mother get along much better than any of the Chinese mother-daughter pairs?
They don't.
They speak to each other and listen to what the other has to say.
When did Ying-ying begin to predict bad omens about her apartment?
As soon as they got the apartment.
After she talked with Teresa and her mother.
After she lost her child.
When Lena grew up and moved away.
Why are the mothers against divorce?
They like their son-in-laws.
They see marriage as something permanent and that it shouldn't be taken lightly.
They spent too much on the weddings.
They don't think want to go through the legal trouble.
What was Suyuan's intention when she said that Waverly was more sophisticated than June?
She meant it as a compliment because she sees it as American arrogance.
She wishes Waverly were her daughter.
She hates June and was insulting her in front of everyone.
She didn't understand what was being said.
How did the Second Wife try to win over An-mei?
She told bad stories about her mother.
She gave her a fake necklace.
She was very kind to An-mei.
She pretended to be her mother.
To who was this said, "In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation. "
Rose
Amah
June
Lena
Who said, "Not know your own mother? How can you say? Your mother is in your bones!"
Ying-ying
Canning
An-mei
Lindo
Who said, "I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing."
Lindo to June
Lindo to Waverly
An-mei to Rose
Lindo's mother to Lindo
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