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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Teresa and her family get over their anger, and hug and kiss, Lena ______________________________________.
(a) Begins to have hope for her own life
(b) Tells her father Teresa went down the fire escape
(c) Wishes her mother would get angry
(d) Is angry that she had to witness the fight

2. Amah is Ying-Ying's ___________.
(a) Sister
(b) Nursemaid
(c) Mother
(d) Aunt

3. What was Ying-Ying feeling at the end of the Moon Lady play?
(a) Hungry for the peach Moon Lady ate
(b) Despair for the Moon Lady's grief
(c) Fear over the enormity of the drama
(d) Guilt for becoming lost from her family

4. Suyuan Woo's beautiful mah jong table was made of __________________.
(a) Hong mu
(b) Teak
(c) Bamboo
(d) Rosewood

5. Popo says a girl who refused to listen to her elders ___________________________.
(a) Turned into an overrripe squash
(b) Grew a large white melon in her stomach
(c) Shook her brains out of her ear
(d) Eventually poisoned herself

6. Lindo Jong is promised in marriage when she _________________________.
(a) Is old enough to consent
(b) Is twelve-years-old
(c) Is two-years-old
(d) Reaches adolescence

7. Lindo Jong's family treated her ________________________________.
(a) As though she were a ghost
(b) Like an orphan they cared for
(c) As though she was an unwanted child
(d) As though she belonged to someone else

8. An-Mei lives in the house owned by ___________________________.
(a) Her uncle and aunt
(b) Her grandfather
(c) Her grandmother
(d) Her mother's husband

9. Ying-Ying feels that both she and her grown daughter are ______________.
(a) Angry
(b) Lost
(c) Depressed
(d) Afraid

10. Besides losing her name, Lena's mother lost ________________________.
(a) Her friends
(b) Her entire dowry
(c) Her status in China
(d) Her entire heritage

11. When Lena's mother speaks to her in Chinese, Lena ____________________________________.
(a) Translates for her father accuratey and succinctly
(b) Does not repeat some of what her mother says
(c) Writes down everything and translates it later
(d) Tries to pretend she does not understand

12. An-Mei's mother shows up ___________________________.
(a) To challenge An-Mei's aunt
(b) To retrieve An-Mei and her brother
(c) To reconcile with her children
(d) To help her mother in her illness

13. Lindo's mother-in-law _______________________________.
(a) Helped Lindo learn to read
(b) Taught Lindo to be a good housewife
(c) Raised Lindo as her own child
(d) Isolated Lindo throughout her childhood

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

15. The eternal aspect of Lindo's marriage was symbolized _________________________________.
(a) A ride through town on a palanquin
(b) A tea ceremony about eternity
(c) With a candle lit at both ends
(d) A ceremony with red scarves

Short Answer Questions

1. When in China, the women of the Joy Luck Club were not allowed __________________________.

2. Waverly's mother pretending to understand chess is ____________________________.

3. The woman's feels her daughter __________________.

4. Waverly Jong's mother taught her early about ____________________________.

5. When she immigrated,what did Lena's father rename Ying-Ying?

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