Study Guide for Final on The Joy Luck Club.docx
Study Guide for Final on The Joy Luck Club
Multiple Choice - 60 questions
Questions/Ideas | Answers |
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 defectc 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 |
Vocabulary words | Definitions |
56. waigoren | Foreigner |
57. chi | Spirit |
58. meimei | Little sister |
59. Suyuan | Long cherished wish |
60. Popo | Grandmother |