Joy Luck Club Quiz pgs. 19-41 (ENG11HNRS) – Flashcards
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Who was Jing Mei Woo suppose to replace
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Her mother, who had passed away 2 months ago
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How did her father think she passed away
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Her father thinks she was killed by her own thoughts
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What did the doctor say she passed away from
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Cerebral aneurysm
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How did her (mother's) friends at the Joy Luck feel about her death
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She died just like a rabbit; quickly and with some unfinished business left behind
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Where and when did her mother start the Joy Luck Club. What same event occurred that year?
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She started the San Francisco version of Joy Luck in 1949; It was the year her mother and father left China
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In her leather trunk, what was the only thing that was inside it
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Fancy silk dresses
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What did her mother wear because her father told her to hide the shiny clothes
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She wore the same brown checkered Chinese dress
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Who was the Refugee Welcome Society
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A group composed of white haired American missionary ladies from the First Chinese Baptist Church
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Because of their gifts, what did her parents ended up doing
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Joining the church
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Who did her parents meet through those events
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The Hsus, the Jongs & St. Clairs
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How did her mother think of Joy Luck
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It was an idea she remembered from her first marriage in Kweilin
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Why did her first husband and bring her and her two babies to Kweilin
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He thought it'd be safe
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What was the role of her first husband
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He was an officer with the Kuomintang
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After settling them in their house, where did the father go?
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To the northwest, To Chungking
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Why did her mother begin to loser her beauty for Kweilin?
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She felt like a city of leftovers, how they looked down on everyone else and how people pushed them around and gave them their diseases
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What was the idea of her mother?
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To have a gathering of four women, and each week they would host a party to raise money and raise spirits. The hostess would serve special dyansyin food and
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Name the three women she wanted to ask about for the Joy Luck Club
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An army officer's wife Another girl from a rich family in Shanghai A girl from Nanking from a low class family and married an old man who had died
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What are some forms of 'dyansyin' foods
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Dumplings shaped like silver money ingots Long rice noodles for long life Boiled peanuts for conceiving sons Many good luck oranges for a sweet life
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How did the people treat their food and overall lifestyle?
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They ate sparingly, not as if they didn't have enough They felt lucky knowing they had some luxuries others didn't have
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What would they do after eating
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Fill a bowl with money where everyone can see and sit down at the mahjong table.
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What did they call 'very fragrant red wood'
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Hong mu
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What were the only two words they could say when taking a tile?
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'Pung!' Or 'Chur!'
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How did they play like
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They played with seriousness and nothing else but adding happiness through winning
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What did the people think of all their gatherings
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That they were wrong to serve banquets every week while many starved. Some also thought that were possessed by demons bc they celebrate despite lost families and home were separated
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What did the women say towards this
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They felt that they should not reflect on their sadness for something already lost
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What did they think of their parties every week
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It was like welcoming a new year and to forget about their past wrongs. They were not allowed to have a bad thought
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What was their only joy
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Hope
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What did an army officer tell Jing's mother to do one day
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To run away from Kweilin
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Since there were not trains what did she end up doing?
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Her friend bribed a man for a wheelbarrow
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What did she put inside the wheelbarrow
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She pushed her two babies.
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How many days did she push before the Japanese came
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For four days
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What did she do when the wheel of her wheelbarrow broke
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She tied scarves onto each and shoulder and placed a baby. She carried a bag of clothes and food
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At the end of the story, she had lost everything except for 3 silk dresses. What happened to the babies?
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She made it clear that Jing's father was not her first husband and that she was not those babies.
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How old is Jing Mei Woo?
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36
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How were her and her mother alike?
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They had the same wispy hand gestures, same girlish laugh and sideways look
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On Joy Luck nights, what was Jing Mei assigned to do (when she was a child)
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Take care of younger children
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While the mother was still alive, what was the attire of the women
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They wore Chinese dresses embroiled in silk
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What did the Joy Luck aunties
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They wore slacks, bright print blouses and sturdy walking shoes
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Why did the Joy Luck Club start investing in stocks
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They got tired of the same people winning and losing and decided a long time ago to invest in a stock market
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What did Jing's mother complain about Auntie An-mei
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That she never thought about what she was doing
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What was on trait about Jing's mother
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She felt that something was always missing, needed improving or not in balance.
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Jing's mother though of each person was made up of 5 elements. Name 3 mentioned in the story
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Too much fire = bad temper Too little wood = you bent too quickly to listen to other's ideas Too much water= you flowed in so many directions
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How do the people at Joy Luck eat?
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As if they had been starving, stuffing forkfuls into their mouths
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Who are the 3 Hsu girls
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Rose, Ruth, Janice
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How does Jing and her mother describe Auntie Ying
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She had always been the weird auntie, lost in her own world. She is not hard of hearing but hard of listening
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What had happened to Auntie An-Mei during her trip to China three years ago
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She had spent over $2000 on her family on chocolates and clothes. When she arrived she didn't just meet her brother, but also the wife's family, distant cousins, and other relatives
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How did Auntie An-Mei feel?
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She cried before leaving China, and although everyone had a palm, she left empty handed
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How did Auntie An-Mei feel towards the end?
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She felt it better to give than to receive
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What is Jing's American name
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June
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How did June describe the relationship of Auntie Lin and her mother
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They were both best friends and arch enemies who spent a lifetime comparing their children
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Who was Auntie Lin's daughter
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Waverly Jong
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What was Waverly proficient in?
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Playing chess
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What did her mother try for June
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She tried to turn her into a concert pianist but failed and so thought that she would just be a late bloomer
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Who's Auntie Ying's daughter
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Lena
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What does Auntie Ying tell her about what her mother intends for her to do
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To find her long lost sisters back in Kweilin
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How does she earn money to travel there
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Masked by their generosity, Auntie Ying mentions about a end of the year banquet for all their mahjong winnings that they save ho
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What is June to tell her siblings
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Tell them about her mother's death, her life
