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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ying Ying was disappointed to find out the Moon Lady in the play _________________________________.
(a) Was only an actress
(b) Was a figment of her imagination
(c) Could not grant wishes
(d) Was actually a man

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

3. In her final attempt to find Bing, Rose's mother ___________________________________.
(a) Throws an inner tube into the ocean for him
(b) Tries to fish him out with a bamboo pole
(c) Begs the Coiled Dragon to give him back
(d) Throws sweetened tea into the sea

4. Lindo Jong is promised in marriage when she _________________________.
(a) Is old enough to consent
(b) Reaches adolescence
(c) Is two-years-old
(d) Is twelve-years-old

5. What did Jing Mei guess was the capital of Finland?
(a) Sacramento
(b) Nairobi
(c) New York
(d) London

Short Answer Questions

1. At the Mah Jong table, Suyuan Woo always sat _________________________-.

2. When she was bored, Jing-mei ________________________________.

3. Ying-Ying's family is __________________.

4. The woman transported the swan ____________________________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What triggers Ying-Ying's early memory of her traumatic fall from the family boat?

2. Why would Lindo begin to think of her cruel husband as a god?

3. What is the difference between the little girl's response to her mother's admonishment about riding the bicycle, and the response that one of these older women might have had to their mothers' warnings years ago?

4. The soup An-Mei's mother made for her dying mother was the ultimate show of love for her mother. What does it symbolize?

5. Waverly's unusual talent becomes a reason to pamper and spoil her. Does she appreciate this treatment? How does it affect her?

6. What might Ying Ying have been planning to ask the Moon Lady for if she had not become lost?

7. Discuss why the current members of the Joy Luck Club have invested their winnings in the stock market.

8. Waverly Place Jong is named after the street she lives on in San Francisco. Discuss other instances where children are named after localities, ideas or unusual things.

9. Why did An-Mei's mother return to her sister's home where she was so unwanted and rejected? Was her mother the person An-Mei had thought she was?

10. Since the little girl is too young to be told about them all, discuss what some of the twenty-six malignant gates might be.

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