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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Parable.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jeing-mei learns that her mother's lost babies ______________________________________.
(a) Died a very poor woman
(b) Have been found alive and well
(c) Died while searching for her lost babies
(d) Wished she had not raised her in America

2. Popo says a girl who refused to listen to her elders ___________________________.
(a) Shook her brains out of her ear
(b) Turned into an overrripe squash
(c) Grew a large white melon in her stomach
(d) Eventually poisoned herself

3. The event that clouds An-Mei's early memory of her mother was _________________________________________________.
(a) She fell as she ran toward her mother
(b) She becomes convinced her that her mother was dead
(c) Her aunt slapped her face
(d) She was severely burned as her mother was leaving

4. When in China, the women of the Joy Luck Club were not allowed __________________________.
(a) To leave before sixteen hours were up
(b) To think a bad thought
(c) To drink more than one cup of tea
(d) Focus on winning

5. The mother's superstitions may have been confirmed when ___________________________.
(a) The two argued about the dangers
(b) The child's bike was broken
(c) The child made it around the corner
(d) The child fell from the bike

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to promote her fertility, Lindo was given ________________________.

2. Ying-Ying feels that both she and her grown daughter are ______________.

3. Lindo's mother-in-law _______________________________.

4. The clothes Ying-Ying wears for the Moon Festival are ________________________.

5. Lindo Jong is promised in marriage when she _________________________.

(see the answer key)

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