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The Joy Luck Club | Quiz

Amy Tan
This Study Guide consists of approximately 116 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Joy Luck Club.

The Joy Luck Club | Quiz

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1)

The child cannot read about the Malignant Gates because _______________________________. (from Part 2, Parable)

It is adult reading, not meant for children
It is far beyond her reading level
Her mother refuses to let her see the book
It is written in Chinese
2)

Lindo is ashamed that Waverly _________________________. (from Part 4, Lindo Jong, "Double Face")

Looks so much like her
Is not proud of her
Does not like her purple tinted hair
Thinks she needs to have her hair done
3)

Waverly Jong's mother taught her early about ____________________________. (from Part 2, Waverly Jong, "Rules of the Game")

Invisible strength
Forbidden fruits
How to shop
Dim Sum
4)

In this parable, the corner represents ________________________________. (from Part 2, Parable)

The growth process of the child
The turning point for the family
The mother's skewed anxiety
The line between safety and danger
5)

As national chess champion, Waverly is touted as __________________________. (from Part 2, Waverly Jong, "Rules of the Game")

The funeral parlor's mascot
Bobby Fischer's best friend
The Great American Hope
A poor child from Chinatown
6)

Rose is afraid to tell her mother about her divorce because _______________________________________. (from Part 2, Rose Hsu Jordan, "Half and Half")

She knows her mother will disown her
She knows her mother will want her to fix the marriage
She does not want to confuse her
Her mother warned her not to get married
7)

Lindo is disappointed that she could not __________________________________. (from Part 4, Lindo Jong, "Double Face")

Teach her daughter how to better speak Chinese
Teach her daughter to do things the easy way
Get her daughter to give up American ways
Instill Chinese character in her daughter
8)

The sisters in China were told their mother was dead by __________________. (from Part 4, Jing-Mei Woo, "A Pair of Tickets")

A telegram from Jing-Mei's father
A phone call from Auntie An-Mei
A letter from Auntie Lindo
Jing-Mei
9)

When Teresa and her family get over their anger, and hug and kiss, Lena ______________________________________. (from Part 2, Lena St. Clair, "The Voice from the Wall")

Wishes her mother would get angry
Is angry that she had to witness the fight
Tells her father Teresa went down the fire escape
Begins to have hope for her own life
10)

Waverly was named after ____________________________. (from Part 2, Waverly Jong, "Rules of the Game")

The local pastry bakery
The local department store
The street where she lived
The boat her family came to America in
11)

Waverly gives up chess for good because she ________________________________-. (from Part 3, Waverly Jong, "Four Dimensions")

Begins to lose tournaments
Lost track of her strategy
Is tired of dealing with her mother
No longer believes she has a gift
12)

Rose's mother admitted to God that _______________________. (from Part 2, Rose Hsu Jordan, "Half and Half")

They had been careless
Their was an ancestral debt
Rose had not taught Bing manners
She had sacred powers
13)

Waverly's mother pretending to understand chess is ____________________________. (from Part 2, Waverly Jong, "Rules of the Game")

Endearing to Waverly
Annoying to Waverly
Her way of appearing bright to the neighbors
Her way of bonding with her daughter
14)

The grandmother asks the baby to teach her mother how to lose innocence, without losing hope, and _________________________-. (from Part 4, Parable)

How to laugh forever
How to be Queen of the Western Skis
How to be a good mother
How to forgive everyone
15)

The child of this Chinese mother proves to be ______________________________. (from Part 2, Parable)

Happy and rambunctious
Slightly slow
Happy to stay where t is safe
Strong willed and disrespectful
16)

Lena is certain her mother is able to _________________________. (from Part 3, Lena St. Clair, "Rice Husband")

See the future
See all the bad things around her
Figure things out
Read tea leaves
17)

The grandmother imagines the baby in this parable to be ________________________. (from Part 4, Parable)

Syi Wang Mu
Buddah's granddaughter
Hwai dungsyi
Empress of China
18)

Which kind of daughter did Jing-mei's mother want? (from Part 2, Jing-Mei Woo, "Two Kinds")

Focused
Free spirited
Obedient
Rebellious
19)

Ying-Ying feels that aborting her baby was ______________________. (from Part 4, Ying-Ying St. Clair, "Waiting Between the Trees")

A weak moment
An act of strength
A mortal sin
An immature act
20)

Jing-Mei Woo travels to China with ____________________-. (from Part 4, Jing-Mei Woo, "A Pair of Tickets")

Her aunties
Her father
Her children
Her sisters
21)

Besides losing her name, Lena's mother lost ________________________. (from Part 2, Lena St. Clair, "The Voice from the Wall")

Her status in China
Her friends
Her entire dowry
Her entire heritage
22)

What the daughter sees in the mirror is _____________________. (from Part 3, Parable)

Her own face
Her mother's face and her own
Her future granchild's face
Her mother's face
23)

Rose was surprised that her mother had ___________________________. (from Part 2, Rose Hsu Jordan, "Half and Half")

Taken her bible on the search
Left her father behind
Learned how to drive
Given up on finding Bing
24)

The vase that breaks in the bedroom symbolizes _____________________________. (from Part 3, Lena St. Clair, "Rice Husband")

The separation of two halves
Lena's mother's prophecy
Lena and Harold's marriage
Harold's insensitivity
25)

The child's mother responds to the question about the twenty six gates, by _________________________________. (from Part 2, Parable)

Silently ignoring the child's question
Holding and rocking the child
Dragging out an old Chinese book
Writing the bad things on paper
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