Joy Luck Club

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1. Suyuan Woo died from…

A cerebral aneurysm and like a rabbit

2. The host of the Joy Luck Club the night June attends is…

Auntie An-Mei

3. Suyuan Woo met the Hsus, Jongs, and the St. Clairs at…

The First Chinese Baptist Church

4. When An-Mei Hsu was a child, if a person was referred to as a ghost it meant…

It is forbidden to talk about that person

5. An-Mei says if you suffer from too much fire it means…

You have a bad temper

6. An-Mei says if you have too much water it means…

You flow in too many directions (lack focus and directions)

7. Suyuan fled Kweilin with her twin babies because…

There was an imminent attack by the Japanese

8. Lindo Jong’s family moved and sent her to live with the Huang family because…

Their home was flooded

9. Popo says losing face is like…

Dropping a necklace down a well

10. She cuts away her skin to make soup for her dying mother

An-Mei Hsu

11. Servants are asked to attend Lindo Jong’s wedding because…

They needed to give the appearance of a larger crowd

12. The literary device being used in this line is: My throat filled with so much hope that it finally burst and blew out my husband’s end of the candle

foreshadowing

13. Lindo gets the money to travel to America because…

It is a part of a deal she has with the Huang family

14. The literary device being used for the below quote is: See how this narrow doorway has been strangled?

personification

15. The theme this line most likely represents is: I remained quiet for so long that my daughter does not hear me.

The link of the Chinese mothers and Chinese daughters

16. The Moon Festival is so special to the Chinese because…

Society forces the people to keep their selfish desires to themselves, but the Moon festival is an exception

17. Ying-ying asks the Moon Lady to be found at the Moon Festival because…

She had fallen off of her boat.

18. Waverly Jong’s brother’s names are:

Vincent and Winston

19. An-Mei received the scar on her neck because…

She was burned by hot soup

20. The red candle predicted the success of Lindo and Tyan-yu’s marriage because…

If it burns from both ends without going out, it will presage a happy marriage

21. Ying-Ying’s Amah teaches her that girls should…

Never ask questions r make requests, but only listen

22. Wavely gets her first chess set because…

Her brother receives it as a gift at a church Christmas party

23. The voices from the wall end up being…

A loud, argumentative, Italian family next door to Lena

24. The “Rice Husband” who is also an architect is…

Harold

25. Ying-ying means…

Clear reflection

26. Things that throw Ying-ying off balance…

1)A stranger approaches her in the street 2)She becomes pregnant 3)She moves into a new apartment

27. When Lena’s mother tells her there is a bad man living in the basement, she…

She sees terrible things everywhere, even on the playground

28. The Moon lady steals…

A peach

29. Clifford St. Clair courted Ying-ying for…

4 months

30. Rose and An-mei returned to the beach to look for Rose’s drowned brother by

An-mei driving them in the family car, even though, to Rose’s knowledge, she has never driven before

31. When Lena fails to eat every last grain of rice in her bowl, Ying-ying…

Tells Lena that every grain of rice she fails to eat will become a pock mark on the face of her future husband

32. The material element that An-mei says is lacking symbolically in Rose’s character is…

Wood

33. Rose Jordan met her husband Ted…

In a college class

34. She says, “I felt such pain…as if someone had torn off both of my arms without anesthesia, without sewing me back up.” Then she imagines getting revenge on her husband with a voodoo doll.

This person is… Rose

35. Ying-ying’s first step in trying to make Lena realize the problems with her marriage and do something about them…

She knocks over the rickety coffee table that Lena’s husband made and breaks a vase

36. The prop that An-mei uses as a prop to keep her kitchen table from wobbling is…

A white Bible

37. Her mother tells her, “A boy can run and chase dragonflies but a girl should stand still for a long time until it hides in the comfort of your shadow.”

Ying-ying St. Clair

38. She is a strong “horse” who tricks her husband and mother-in-law out of her arranged marriage

Lindo-Jong

39. This woman makes clouds with one hand and rain with the other…

Second wife of Wu Tsing

40. Jing Mei’s half sisters (the twins) Chwun Yu and Chwun Hwa names mean…

Spring Rain and Spring Flower

41. The black side of a tiger represents…

cunning

42. She learned the art of invisible strength from her mother, but also she has inherited her mother’s “double-faced” approach to meet new challenges…

Waverly Jong

43. The literary device of the following quote is: We were a city of leftovers mixed together

metaphor

44. The literary device of the following quote is: The peaks looked like giant fish heads trying to jump out of a vat of oil

simile

45. The literary device of the following quote is: Auntie had a tongue like hungry scissors eating silk cloth

simile

46. This was not a major symbol that appeared in the novel…

The color yellow

47. The reason you shouldn’t put a mirror at the foot of your bed is because…

Marital happiness will bounce back and turn the other way

48. Complete the phrase, “Strongest wind…

…cannot be seen”

49. Jing-mei eats this for breakfast for her first meal in China…

Hamburgers, French fries and apple pie

50. Complete the phrase, “When a husband stops paying attention to the garden…

…he’s thinking of pulling up roots.”

51. He was born with a defect because his head was as empty as an eggshell.

This is… Lena St. Clair’s little brother

52. The table in Lena and Harold’s house is a metaphor because…

The table is flawed like Harold’s perceptions

53. This quote is an example of this literary device: …my heart felt like crickets scratching to get out of a cage

Simile

54. The Twenty Six Malignant Gates are…

The bad things that can happen to you

55. This was not used as a metaphor between mother and daughter in the novel…

Ice cream

56. waigoren

Foreigner

57. chi

Spirit

58. meimei

Little sister

59. Suyuan

Long cherished wish

60. Popo

Grandmother