Quiz, The Joy Luck Club 1-80

A) She is an expert mah jong player

B) She is taking over the seat of her mother, who recently died

C) She needs money to go to college

D) She wants to learn about her mother's past

A) In San Francisco during the 1940s

B) In Shanghai before the war

C) In Kweilin, as a way to escape the horrors of the Japanese invasion

D) In Hong Kong, before emigrating to America

A) She was forced to abandon her twin babies on the side of the road

B) She lost her entire fortune of gold

C) She suffered a paralyzing injury

D) She forgot how to speak Chinese

A) Her mother's red jade necklace

B) A check for $1,200 to travel to China and meet her sisters

C) A hand-carved mahogany mah jong table

D) A traditional silk dress

A) Because her mother died when An-mei was a baby

B) Because her mother became a concubine and was forbidden to be spoken of

C) Because her mother haunts the family's old house

D) Because her mother moved to America

A) She was burned by a pot of boiling soup that fell during a family argument

B) She was cut by her aunt's sharp scissors

C) She fell down a flight of stairs

D) She burned herself on a red wedding candle

A) She runs away in the middle of the night to Peking

B) She successfully blows out the marriage candle

C) She claims the ancestors gave her signs in a dream that the marriage is doomed

D) She pays the matchmaker to annul the contract

A) It burns perfectly until the morning

B) It is knocked over and burns the house down

C) A servant accidentally extinguishes it

D) Lindo sneaks out during a storm and blows out Tyan-yu's end of the candle

A) She trades them for a rabbit mooncake

B) She smears them with turtle blood to cover up stains from the boat

C) She loses them when she falls into the lake

D) She tears them while playing with her half-sisters

A) To find a wealthy husband

B) She completely forgets what she wished for

C) To be allowed to run and play like a boy

D) To eat a special mooncake