Double Face & A Pair Of Tickets
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- 1.Why does Waverly Jong want to go to China?
- A.
She wants to be among other people who look like her.
- B.
She wants to escape the boredom of San Francisco.
- C.
She wants to go to please her mother.
- D.
She wants to go there for her second honeymoon.
- 2.Why does Waverly especially want to be Chinese?
- A.
Because she enjoys her heritage
- B.
Because it is so fashionable
- C.
Because she is marrying a Chinese man
- D.
Because she wants her daughter to also be Chinese
- 3.Why could Lindo’s children not have American circumstances and Chinese character?
- A.
Because the two things do not mix
- B.
Because they have minds of their own
- C.
Because they have American character and Chinese circumstances instead
- D.
Because God willed it not to be so
- 4.Who first taught Lindo about America?
- A.
A concubine
- B.
A Chinese actor
- C.
Her husband
- D.
An American-raised Chinese girl in Peking
- 5.What kind of job did Lindo get in the cookie factory?
- A.
She got a job in a shop.
- B.
She got a job driving a taxi.
- C.
She got a job forming Chinese fortune cookies out of hot dough.
- D.
She got a job as a waitress in a Chinese restaurant.
- 6.What was the fortune inside the cookie that Lindo gave to Tin?
- A.
“Hi Handsome!”
- B.
A house is not a home when a spouse is not at home.”
- C.
“Give me a call when you can.”
- D.
“I am lonely and available.”
- 7.Why does Waverly like the fact that she and her mother have crooked noses?
- A.
Just because she likes to look like her mother
- B.
Because she likes to look different
- C.
Because she thinks they make her and her mother look devious or two-faced
- D.
Just because it is their only flaw
- 8.At the end of the story, what is Lindo wondering about?
- A.
She is wondering what she has lost in coming to America and what she has gotten back in return.
- B.
She is wondering who her daughter will marry next.
- C.
She is wondering how much it will cost to find a husband for her daughter.
- D.
She is wondering what’s for dinner.
- 9.Why does Jing-mei feel different as her train leaves the Hong Kong border and enters Shenzhen, China?
- A.
Because she is becoming Chinese
- B.
Because she can no longer speak the dialect of the region she is in
- C.
Because her mother always talked about crossing that border
- D.
Because the air is somewhat lighter in Shenzhen
- 10.Where is Jing-mei meeting her two half-sisters?
- A.
She is meeting them in Shanghai.
- B.
She is meeting them in Oakland.
- C.
She is meeting them in Canton.
- D.
She is meeting them in Kweilin.
- 11.How did the half-sisters learn that their mother was dead?
- A.
They learned that their mother was dead when Auntie Lindo wrote a letter to them as Jing-mei asked her to do.
- B.
Somehow they just knew.
- C.
Jing-mei phoned them weeks before her visit to China.
- D.
Jing-mei’s father secretly wrote to them so that they wouldn’t have false expectations.
- 12.How did Jing-mei learn the details of what happened to her half-sisters?
- A.
From her father
- B.
From her mother’s journals
- C.
From Auntie Lindo
- D.
From the half-sisters themselves
- 13.Why did Jing-mei’s mother actually leave the babies?
- A.
Because she tired of carrying them
- B.
Because they wouldn’t have been Chinese if she had brought them to America with her
- C.
Because she thought she was going to die and didn’t want them to die with her
- D.
Because she traded them for a lot of money
- 14.Who found the babies?
- A.
An old peasant woman
- B.
A gypsy queen
- C.
The mayor of a nearby town
- D.
A large magical dog
- 15.What are the two different Chinese meanings of Suyuan, Jing-mei’s mother’s name?
- A.
"Wonderful Mother” and “Honorable Adversary”
- B.
“Good Wife” and “Nagging Woman”
- C.
“Beautiful One” and “Light of My Life”
- D.
“Long Cherished Wish” and “Long-Held Grudge
- 16.What are the meanings of Jing-mei’s name?
- A.
“Just pure essence” and “younger sister
- B.
“Sweet person” and “Loyal follower”
- C.
“Loved relation” and “Beautiful dreamer”
- D.
“Her Mother’s Wish” and “Difficult Child”
- 17.I read most of Joy Luck Club.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 18.I read all of Joy Luck Club.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 19.What was your favorite story from Joy Luck Club? Retell this story completely.
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