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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ted is frustrated with Lena because ___________________________.
(a) She is still attached to her family
(b) She does not like his mother
(c) She cannot make a decision
(d) She wants to control the relationship

2. Rose was surprised that her mother had ___________________________.
(a) Left her father behind
(b) Taken her bible on the search
(c) Learned how to drive
(d) Given up on finding Bing

3. What young Jing-Mei senses is that she will soon _________________________.
(a) Become perfect
(b) Become invisible
(c) Be discovered
(d) Be a rock star

4. An-Mei Hsu grew up with ___________________________________.
(a) Her father and her little brother
(b) Her mother and father
(c) Her auntie and uncle
(d) Her grandmother and her little brother

5. The old woman wants to use perfect English to explain ________________________________.
(a) Her predicament to customs
(b) The story of the swan to her daughter
(c) Her sister's unfortunate situation
(d) Her reasons for leaving China

6. The Hsu family had four sons and ______________________.
(a) Two daughters
(b) Three daughters
(c) Four daughters
(d) One daughter

7. The mother appears certain that _________________________.
(a) The child will fall
(b) The child will respect her wishes
(c) The child will be obedient
(d) The child will be captured

8. Ying-Ying feels that both she and her grown daughter are ______________.
(a) Depressed
(b) Afraid
(c) Angry
(d) Lost

9. Very few guests attended Lindo's wedding because _______________________________.
(a) :Lindo's future husband was not well-liked
(b) The Japanese had invaded the area
(c) It was raining
(d) The wedding was not important to the village

10. The old woman who buys a swan eventually _____________________________.
(a) Takes the swan to America
(b) Gives the swan to her daughter
(c) Eats the swan to survive
(d) Takes the swan back to China

11. In the city, a new type of thinking allows _________________________________.
(a) People to live together unmarried
(b) A woman to marry without permission
(c) A man to choose his own wife
(d) Women to choose their husbands

12. The child of this Chinese mother proves to be ______________________________.
(a) Happy to stay where t is safe
(b) Happy and rambunctious
(c) Strong willed and disrespectful
(d) Slightly slow

13. An-Mei's brother lost his happiness when _______________________________________-.
(a) His father watched him from a painting
(b) His abusive aunt told him about his mother
(c) His grandmother punished him for laughing
(d) His grandmother began to die

14. Waverly Jong's mother taught her early about ____________________________.
(a) How to shop
(b) Forbidden fruits
(c) Invisible strength
(d) Dim Sum

15. When Teresa and her family get over their anger, and hug and kiss, Lena ______________________________________.
(a) Tells her father Teresa went down the fire escape
(b) Wishes her mother would get angry
(c) Is angry that she had to witness the fight
(d) Begins to have hope for her own life

Short Answer Questions

1. Lindo was able to convince her in-laws to end her marriage by ______________________________.

2. The woman's feels her daughter __________________.

3. Rose's mother recorded Bing's death _______________________.

4. How did Ying-Ying's rescuers determine she was not a beggar?

5. When in China, the women of the Joy Luck Club were not allowed __________________________.

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