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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. Waverly's mother uses Waverly __________________________.
(a) As a second income stream
(b) To preserve her Chinese customs
(c) To help with housework
(d) As a source of pride

2. Mah Jong is __________________.
(a) A poker game
(b) A board game
(c) A word game
(d) Fortune telling

3. As national chess champion, Waverly is touted as __________________________.
(a) The Great American Hope
(b) The funeral parlor's mascot
(c) Bobby Fischer's best friend
(d) A poor child from Chinatown

4. When Ying-Ying got dirty with turtle blood, Amah was afraid Ying-Ying's mother would _______________________________.
(a) Split them up
(b) Banish them both to Kunming
(c) Send them to Shang Hai
(d) Banish them from the village

5. The winner of the American Mah Jong game takes home _________________________.
(a) Leftover food
(b) Cash
(c) City savings bonds
(d) Stock certificates

Short Answer Questions

1. Lindo Jong's family treated her ________________________________.

2. The Mah Jong tiles are arranged into ___________________.

3. A Chinese Santa Claus asked Waverly ______________________________________.

4. Lindo was forced to live with her future in-laws because ______________________________________.

5. The woman's feels her daughter __________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Ying-Ying has remained a frightened child into her adulthood, and now her daughter is forced to live with Ying-Ying's fears. Why is Ying-Ying St. Clair so afraid?

2. The parable is obviously based on a current-day story in which one of the mothers in the book tries to warn her daughter of her superstitions. Discuss other instances in the book up until this point where mothers feel they know so much more than their daughters.

3. How could a woman with twin babies leave them at the side of the road?

4. Discuss why the woman has never told her daughter about the single feather she kept from the swan.

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

6. 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?

7. Why might it be that Jing-Mei continues to be a failure?

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

9. What is the root problem in Rose's marriage?

10. Jing-Mei Woo's mother and Waverly Jong's mother compete through their daughters' failures and successes. Are the two women friends?

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