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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. Why did Lena feel she caused Arnold's death?
2. Lindo's mother told her as a child that _________________________________.
3. Lindo knows that Chinese people will know that her daughter ___________________.
4. Waverly gives up chess for good because she ________________________________-.
5. An-Mei's mother was not always a fourth wife, but was once a _______________________.
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss what is meant in this chapter by "double face."
2. It becomes more obvious in this chapter the kinds of adults that Jing-Mei and Waverly have grown into. Who is more likable?
3. Does Ying-Ying love her husband, Saint?
4. Does Rose grow in this chapter?
5. Why is An-Mei's family so miserable?
6. Lindo knows Waverly's weak spots, and pokes at them. Discuss what they are.
7. Ying-Ying's story is vast and complex, and one that her daughter has never known or understood. Why, in this chapter, has she decided to tell Lena everything about her life?
8. Is there a character in this story who might be represented in this parable?
9. What does Jing-Mei's mother mean when she says that everyone else, with the exception of Jing-Mei, wants the best quality? How is Jing-Mei different?
10. What is the purpose of a mother trying to impose her own values on her daughter's life?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The older Chinese women in this story experienced certain aspects of severe female oppression while in China. At the heart of this story is the message of how our own past is imprinted on our children, regardless of how different their lives are. Write an essay about how the experiences of each of the older Chinese women in the story purposely, or inadvertently, passed on certain attitudes and viewpoints about women and their roles to their American daughters. Discuss the impact on their daughters, as well.
Essay Topic 2
Determine why An-Mei Hsu named her youngest child Bing, and explore the irony that Tan creates with Bing's death. How is Bing's role related to An-mei's religious beliefs, and what does his death represent?
Essay Topic 3
Do a thorough re-read of The Joy Luck Club and scan for recurring devices that make the story come alive. They are subtle, but you will notice that Amy Tan meticulously plants them in the right places to give her story consistency and to give her readers a real sense of her culture. One example is how she uses "smells" throughout the story - the smells from the sewer in Kweilin, Lindo learning to smell the toilets to be sure they were clean and being able to detect the amount of salt in a soup by its smell, the cat putting a stink on Suyuan's door, the smelly crab -- these are just a few instances.
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