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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Amah is Ying-Ying's ___________.
2. Ying-Ying, or Betty, is consumed with ______________.
3. The old woman's daughter swallowed this, more than sorrow.
4. Between the child and mother there is a discernible sense of ______________________________.
5. The woman's feels her daughter __________________.
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss why Lindo's clever scheme works on her mother-in-law.
2. Jing-Mei Woo's mother and Waverly Jong's mother compete through their daughters' failures and successes. Are the two women friends?
3. The Moon Lady says woman is the dark yin, and man is the bright truth of yang. How did this kind of thinking affect the characters in this book over their lifetimes?
4. Discuss the reason that An-Mei's mother is considered a "ghost" and does not live with her children.
5. Discuss why the current members of the Joy Luck Club have invested their winnings in the stock market.
6. How could a woman with twin babies leave them at the side of the road?
7. Why might it be that Jing-Mei continues to be a failure?
8. Why is Waverly disrespectful of her mother?
9. The imagery of the woman fluttering her arms when the swan is taken from her is sad. What does it imply?
10. The woman wishes for a daughter just like herself, but there are some caveats. Discuss the things she does not want for her daughter.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Many Chinese people settled in San Francisco during the 1800s. What was it about San Francisco that drew them during that particular period of time? Write an essay and describe the impetus for coming to California. Did the Chinese generally stay and make homes here? Were they readily accepted in the U.S. What were their particular challenges here?
Essay Topic 2
San Francisco's Chinatown has always held a mysterious fascination for tourists and outsiders, perhaps because the Chinese in this area held on to their old customs and did not readily meld with Americans. Research and write about San Francisco's Chinatown, its origins, its development and the present-day culture there.
Essay Topic 3
Every year people are swept out to sea while vacationing at the beaches on the Pacific coastline. Rose Hsu's younger brother, Bing, got into a particularly precarious position before losing his life in the powerful ocean. Research and write an essay about the several predictable things that people do, or things that they ignore at the coast, that can prove dangerous and sometimes fatal. (This information is readily available from California, Oregon and Washington government agencies.) Why is this such an ongoing problem?
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