Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Jing-Mei Woo travels to China with ____________________-.
2. What the daughter sees in the mirror is _____________________.
3. Lena and Harold are both _________________.
4. Waverly has an ignorant fear of Jing-mei's hairdresser _______________________________.
5. Rose finds the imagery of Ted doing monkey business __________________.
Short Essay Questions
1. How does it affect Jing-Mei to meet her long lost sisters in China?
2. Lindo was a very strong girl, traveling alone and finding her way in San Francisco. How does Waverly compare to her mother in terms of strength and character?
3. Discuss what is meant in this chapter by "double face."
4. What is the lesson the woman is trying to impart, and the question she is wanting to have answered?
5. Is there a character in this story who might be represented in this parable?
6. Does Ying-Ying love her husband, Saint?
7. Why does Rose's mother say that Rose is without wood?
8. What is the purpose of a mother trying to impose her own values on her daughter's life?
9. Why does Lena have such a strange financial relationship with Harold?
10. Did Lena's mother knock the table over that shattered the vase in her bedroom?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Write an essay about matchmaking in China. Although this practice was certainly not confined to China, it was practiced for several reasons, besides simply tradition. Research and understand the importance of this process, and share it in an essay, with examples and illustrations.
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.
|
This section contains 777 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
