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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. At lunch together, Waverly's mother _____________________________________.
2. Jing-Mei's paternal aunt and her father speak ____________________.
3. The sisters in China were told their mother was dead by __________________.
4. Lindo is disappointed that she could not __________________________________.
5. What is the supposed effect of a mirror at the foot of the bed?
Short Essay Questions
1. In this chapter we learn the origin of Bing's name. What is it?
2. What is the lesson the woman is trying to impart, and the question she is wanting to have answered?
3. Why is An-Mei's family so miserable?
4. It becomes more obvious in this chapter the kinds of adults that Jing-Mei and Waverly have grown into. Who is more likable?
5. Discuss what is meant in this chapter by "double face."
6. "Peach blossom luck" is a feng shui belief that certain objects and angles in a room will influence the happiness and longevity of a marriage. Discuss why or why not this might be possible.
7. Why does Rose's mother say that Rose is without wood?
8. Why does Lena have such a strange financial relationship with Harold?
9. Lindo knows Waverly's weak spots, and pokes at them. Discuss what they are.
10. Why did An-Mei feel she had no choice but to marry Wu Tsing?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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