Joy Luck Club Test Review

10 questions on people with what you know about them: matching, 20 multiple choice questions, short answer , nice paragraph, only in the space provided, open topic, anything you can talk about, make your own, no right or wrong

George Hsu

is An-mei’s husband and Rose’s father

Matthew, Mark, Luke, Bing, Janice and Ruth:

Who are Roses siblingsa.

Suyuan Woo

Had a husband, gave birth to twins. Her husband, an officer with the Kuomintang. During World War 2 an officer warned her to leave Kweilin, that it would be invaded by the Japanese and officers would be the first killed. She takes her children and some of her belongings to leave. She is unable to hitchhike since everyone is trying to get a ride. She does this for several days until she understands she cannot go on. She reaches a point that she cannot move on anymore and leaves her children in the side of the road. She is later saved by American missionaries and picked up by a truck.

Suyuan Woo

Which Character dies from a cerebral aneurysm

Mother: Suyuan Woo

Daughter: Jing-mei Woo

Mother: An-mei Hsu

Daughter: Rose Hsu Jordan

Mother: Lindo Jong

Daughter: Waverly Jong

Mother: Ying-ying St. Clair

Daughter: Lena St. Clair

Suyuan Woo

Founded the original Joy Luck Club

An-Mei Hsu

Has a dead father, and disgraced mother due to her becoming a concubine.

Lindo Jong

Was engaged to her future husband and the age of two. Had to leave her actual family to live with her husbands family at the age of 12 due to a flood. Later tricks the family and escapes her marriage.

The fifteenth day of he eighth moon, when the moon is perfectly round and bigger than any other time of the year.

What day did Lindo Jong marry her first husband?

Tyan-yu

Lindo Jong’s first husband. Spoiled by his mother, grows up to be an immature, soft adolescents who does not want anything to do with Lindo and does not meet up to their marital activity expectations.

Lindo Jong

Learns about the powers of “invisible strength” at a young age.

Jing-Mei Woo

“The Joy Luck Club” told by:

An-Mei Hsu

“Scar” told by:

Lindo Jong

“The Red Candle” told by:

Ying-ying St. Clair

“The Moon Lady” told by:

Waverly Jong

“Rules of the Game” told by:

Lena St. Clair

“The Voice from the Wall” told by:

Rose Hsu Jordan

“Half and Half” told by:

Jing-Mei Woo

“Two Kinds” told by:

Lena St. Clair

“Rice Husband” told by:

Waverly Jong

“Four Directions” told by:

Rose Hsu Jordan

“Without Wood” told by:

Jing-Mei Woo

“Best Quality” told by:

An-Mei Hsu

“Magpies” told by:

Ying-ying St. Clair

“Waiting Between the Trees” told by:

Lindo Jong

“Double Face” told by:

Jing-Mei Woo

“A Pair of Tickets” told by:

The original Joy Luck Club was…

Was thought of on a summer night that was so hot “even the moths fainted to the ground.” A gathering of four women, one for each corner of Suyuan’s mah jong table. They would host a party each week to raise money and their spirits. They would play games, and eat food, and have luxuries little people could afford.

Ying-ying St. Clair

Born in the year of the Tiger, told as a child to suppress her energy and loudness as a child. Looses her sense of autonomist will. Goes on a boat trip at the age of four in the year 1918 on the day of the on Festival. Watching people kill sea animals and gets blood on all her clothing. She gets in trouble for this and falls into the water when firecrackers go off. She almost drowns but gets picked up by a fishing net. She watches the play about the Moon Lady and understands it perfectly. Eventually found by her family.

Jing-mei Woo

Mother died, making her replace her spot in the Joy Luck Club. Has half siblings in China, and says that she knows little of her own mother and would not know what to say to her.

Waverly Jong

Lived on Waverly Place, where she was named after. Becomes a chess prodigy at a young age and becomes a national chess champion.

Rose Hsu Jordan

Unable to assert her own opinion, or to stand up for himself. Feels responsible for the death (drowned) of her brother, Bing. Was supposed to be watching him, but still drowned. Married to her husband Ted, and wants a divorce.

Lena St. Clair

Her mid tends to see terrible things, like the devil, accidents, and more. Listened to a mother and daughter argue every night, resulting in her knowing a lot about the girl. Taught to stay away from strangers, and to fear from them

__Feathers from a Thousand Li away__

This series of stories addresses the desire of the Chinese mothers for their daughters to have better lives in America than they had in China. The better life is symbolized in the swan one mother brought with her. Immigration officials took it from her. leaving her with only one feather to remind her of what she had left behind. Even when her daughter’s life fails to live up to her expectations, the mother keeps the one feather and thinks that one day she will use it to explain, in perfect English, all of her good intentions for her daughter.

__The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates__

These store is address the mothers telling their daughters how to live. The daughters reject their mothers’ ideas, but what the mothers say comes true. This point is symbolized in the mother who tells the daughter not to ride her bicycle around the corner because she will fall down and cry and not be heard by her mother. The daughter rejects the mother’s ideas but then she jumps on her bicycle and falls even before she reaches the corner.

__American Translation__

The stories in this section continue the clash between the values of the Chinese mothers and the new lives embraced by the American daughters. This is symbolized in the mirrored armoire in the master suite of the daughter’s new condominium. It’s mirrors are at the foot of the bed and will reflect happiness away from the daughter. The mother placed a gilt-edged mirror on the headboard of the bed to bring the daughter “peach-blossom luck,” fertility, the grandchildren that the grandmother-to-be desires.

__Queen Mother of the Western Skies__

This series of stories represent the Chinese mothers trying to pass along the message that the daughters should lose their innocence but not their hope. This is symbolized by the woman teasing her baby granddaughter and remembering how she went from freedom and innocence and laughter to learning to protect herself. She taught her daughter to protect herself by shedding her own innocence. Now, seeing the laughing baby, the grandmother wonders if her daughter can learn through the child to keep her hope and to laugh forever.

Mrs. Sorci and Teresa

Names of the Italian mother and daughter that argue:

Bing

Died at the age of four, drowned.

Wang Fuchi

Name of Suyuan Woo’s first husband

Canning Woo

Name of Suyuan Woo’s last husband

Wang Chwun Yu and Wang Chwun Hwa

Names of the twin sisters.

Tin Jong

Lindo’s second husband. He is the father of her three children: Vincent, Waverly, and Winston.

Vincent Jong

Lindo and Tin Jong’s second child. When he received a secondhand chess set at a church-sponsored Christmas party, his sister Waverly discovered her interest and talent in chess.

Winston Jong

was Lindos and Tins Jong first child. He was killed in a car accident at the age of sixteen.

Huang Taitai

was Tyan-yu’s mother. When Lindo came to live in her household at the age of twelve, she trained her to be the epitome of the obedient wife. Domineering and tyrannical, made Lindo’s life miserable and ignorantly blamed her for the fact that Lindo and Tyan-yu had no children.

Marvin Chen

was Waverly’s first husband and is the father of her daughter, Shoshana. Waverly’s mother Lindo was very critical of him, always pointing out his faults. Soon Waverly could see nothing but his shortcomings, and consequently divorced him. Waverly fears that the same thing will happen when she marries Rich.

Shoshana Chen

is Waverly’s four-year-old daughter. Waverly’s unconditional love for her teaches her about maternal devotion.

#### Rich Schields

is Waverly’s white fiancé. Waverly wants to tell her mother Lindo about their engagement, but she is afraid that Lindo will criticize him to the point that she will be unable to see anything but his faults. He loves Waverly unconditionally, but Waverly fears that a bad first impression will unleash a flood of criticism from Lindo.

Bing Hsu

was the youngest of An-mei’s and George Hsu’s seven children. When he was four years old, the entire Hsu family took a trip to the beach, and he drowned. Rose, rather irrationally, blames herself for the death. An-mei had faith that God and her nengkan, or her belief in her power to control her fate, would help her find him, but the boy never turned up.

Popo

was An-mei’s maternal grandmother. When An-mei’s mother married Wu Tsing, she disowned her. According to traditional Chinese values, it was a disgrace that her widowed daughter had not only remarried but had re-married as a third concubine. Five years after leaving, An-mei’s mother returned because she had fallen terminally ill and, according to superstitious healing methods, sliced off a piece of her flesh to put in a broth for her.

Wu Tsing

was a wealthy Chinese merchant who took An-mei’s mother as his third concubine, or “Fourth Wife.” He was easily manipulated by Second Wife and was, at root, a coward. When An-mei’s mother commits suicide, he fears the vengeance of her ghost and thus promises to raise An-mei in wealth and status.

Second Wife

was Wu Tsing’s first concubine. She entirely dominates the household in Tientsin, providing an example of extreme female power in a patriarchal society. Yet hers is a cruel power: she is deceptive and manipulative. She banks on her husband’s fear of ghosts by faking suicides so that he will give her what she wants, and she trapped An-mei’s mother into marrying Wu Tsing so as to fulfill his wish for heirs without losing her authority. At first, Second Wife manipulates An-mei into liking her by giving her a pearl necklace, but An-mei’s mother shows An-mei the deceptiveness of appearances by shattering one of the “pearls” with her foot in order to prove that it is actually glass. An-mei repeats this action after her mother’s suicide, and Second Wife is the first figure against whom An-mei learns to assert her own strength.

Syaudi

was the son of An-mei’s mother and her second husband, Wu-Tsing, but Second Wife took him as her own. An-mei learned that he was her brother through Yan Chang, her mother’s servant.

Ted Jordan

 is Rose’s estranged husband. When they were dating, he made all the decisions. Later, he asks for a divorce and is surprised when Rose stands up for herself.

#### Clifford St. Clair

Ying-ying’s second husband. He never learned to speak Chinese fluently, and she never learned to speak English fluently. He often puts words into his wife’s mouth.

Ying-ying’s Amah

was her childhood nursemaid. She loved Ying-ying as if she were her own child and tried to instill traditional Chinese feminine values in her—values that Ying-ying will later regret having adopted.

Harold Livotny

is Lena St. Clair’s husband. Since the beginning of their relationship, he has insisted that they split the cost of everything they share. He says that keeping their finances separate makes their love purer. However, what he believes will keep them independent and equal in fact renders Lena rather powerless.

Ying-ying st. clair

had a miscarriage