The Joy Luck Club Part 1
In Scar, what is the definition of shou?
Having no respect for ancestors or family.
What gift did Lindo's mother give to Lindo as the family moved away?
Her chang, a necklace made out of a tablet of red jade.
After An-Mei was burned, what did her grandmother tell her that made her get better fast?
Her grandmother told her that her mother had left and would forget An-mei if she didn't get better fast.
What is An-mei's "know nothing face"?
It is the face she makes when she doesn't want to show her true emotions.
How did Indo Jong become engaged to her future husband?
A match was arranged through a matchmaker when they were very young.
Why was Jing-mei taking part in the Joy Luck Club?
Because her mother had died and her father asked her to be "the fourth corner" at the game.
Why does the Amah tell Ying-ying that she must keep her wishes a secret?
Because if she tells her secret-wishes, it will no longer be a wish but will become a desire.
Why did women in the club call it Joy Luck?
Because the women hoped to be lucky and that hope was their only joy.
Why was An-mei told never to say her mother's name?
Because to say her mother's name was to spit on her father's grave.
How did Tyan-yu make Lindo cry the first night she lived in his house?
By complaining that the soup was not hot enough, spilling the bowl as if it were an accidet, waiting until she sat down before demanding more rice, and asking why she had such an unpleasant face when looking at him.
What did An-mei's mother do to become a ghost?
By showing disrespect for her family.
What wish did Ying-ying ask for the Moon Lady?
She asked to be found.
How did Ying-ying wind up in the water?
She fell off the back of the boat.
What happened to the greedy girl in An-mei's grandmother's story?
She grew fatter and fatter and poisoned herself after refusing to say whose child she carried.
In the story, what does An-mei learn from her own mother?
She learns that one's love and respect for one's mother is deep within one's bones.
What does Jing-mei promise the aunties at the end of the story?
She promises that she will tell her sisters everything about her mother.
What surprising information did Jing-mei finally learn from her mother's story about leaving Kweilin?
She realized that her mother had left her two daughters behind.
In An-mei's grandmother's story, what happened to the little girl who refused to listen to her elders?
She refused her aunt's request and a little ball fell from her ear and all her brains poured out.
What does An-mei remember about her mother from when An-mei was four?
She remembers that her mother returned to the family and was chased away the same night after the hot soup burned An-mei.
What does the Moon Lady represent for Ying-ying?
She represented an illusion; a wish granted that could not be trusted.
How does YIng-ying's story reflect her life and that of her daughter?
She says that she and her daughter are both lost.
Why did aunties five Jing-Mei $1200 in an envelope?
So that Jing-mei could go to China and meet her half sisters.
Why did An-mei's grandmother say bad things about her own grandchildren?
So that ghosts would think the children were not worth stealing.
What does Ying-yin say her earliest recollection is?
Telling the Moon Lady her secret wish.
What did it mean in An-mei's family to become a ghost?
That everyone was forbidden to talk about the person.
What surprising thing does Jing-Mei tell her aunties about her own mother?
That she really doesn't know anything about her mother.
What promise did Lindo make to herself on her wedding day?
That she would always remember her parents' wishes but would never forget herself.
What was the effect on Ying-ying of listening to the Moon Lady's story?
The story made Ying-ying cry and shake.
How many Joy Luck Clubs have there been?
There have been two.
How do the people at the San Francisco Joy Luck Club eat?
They eat like they had been starving.
What do the aunties want Jing-mei to tell her half-sister in China?
They want her to tell her half-sisters about her mother.
Why did Jing-Mei's mother form the Joy Luck Club in Kweilin?
To give herself and some friends a diversion from the horrors of war.
What is the ultimate fate of the moon lady?
To live on the moon while her husband lives on the sun, to seek her own wishes.
What did Lindo's mother-in-law instruct the servant to teach Lindo?
To teach her to perform household duties so that she would be a good and obedient wife.
How did Lindo first become a member of the Huang household?
When she was twelve, her family moved away and sent her to live with the Huang family.