JCL Studyguide Chapters 15-16
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| show | Lindo Jong.
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| Why did Waverly want to look Chinese? | show 🗑
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| What did Waverly think about herself? | show 🗑
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| show | Waverly felt that only her skin and hair were Chinese, but inside, she was All American-made.
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| Who does Lindo Jong blame for Waverly feeling American inside with only Chinese skin and hair? | show 🗑
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| Who owns a beauty salon? | show 🗑
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| show | Waverly
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| show | Lindo
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| show | Because her mother pointed out all the signs of good luck in their similar features.
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| show | She paid another Chinese girl to help her fit in, or lose her Chinese face.
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| What did Lindo learn that she should gain the respect of Americans ? | show 🗑
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| Where did Lindo get a job when she arrived in America? | show 🗑
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| show | In the fortune cookie factory.
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| Was Ani-mei already married when she met Lindo? | show 🗑
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| Where did she take Lindo to be introduced to Ting Jong? | show 🗑
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| Why did Ting and Lindo have to communicate by writing things down? | show 🗑
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| show | They found a fortune that said:"A house is not home when a spouse is not at home."
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| Did Lindo and Ting Jong get married? | show 🗑
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| What namesdid Lindo give to her sons she had for Ting Jong? | show 🗑
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| Why did Lindo give her daugther the name, Waverly? | show 🗑
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| What similiarity did Lindo notice that Waverly and her face? | show 🗑
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| show | Waverly says their similiarity means they are both two-faced, so they are good at getting what they want.
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| What does Lindo think about faces and being two-faced? | show 🗑
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| show | People in China could tell she was no longer completely Chinese and saw her as a foreigner.
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| What did Jing-mei Woo realize as she took the train from Hong Kong to visit her aunt in Guangzhou? | show 🗑
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| show | Yes
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| show | Jing-mei's father
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| Who received the letter from An-mei's twin daughters and gave it to the Joy Luck Club ladies? | show 🗑
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| Instead of writing a letter breaking the news of Suyuan Woo's death, what did the JLC ladies write to the twin sisters? | show 🗑
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| Why di Jing-Mei begg Lingo to write another letter explaining that the twins mother had died? | show 🗑
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| show | Lindo was satisfied at Jing-mei;s recognition ofher own shortcomings.
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| show | A bomb struck their house and all of Suyuan's family died.
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| What does Jing-mei's father tell her sisters' their names are? | show 🗑
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| show | Suyuan's name means "Long-Cherished Wish" written one way, and "Long-Held Grudge" written another.
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| show | Jing means "pure essence" and mei means "younger sister", Jing-mei is her mother's long-cherished wishe...the essence of her sisters.
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| Who tells Jing-mei the story of why her mother abandoned her sisters in China. | show 🗑
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| show | Suyuan was horribly weak with dysentery.
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| show | Before walking away to die, Suyuan stuffed valuables and information into each of their shirts, along with a note asking that someone take care of them and return them to her address in Shanghai.
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| Why did she abandon the twins? | show 🗑
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| show | When Suyuan woke in the care of missionaries and when she reached Chingking, she found that her first husband was dead.
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| Who found An-mei's twin girl babies? | show 🗑
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| Did anyone the peasant woman try to return the twins. | show 🗑
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| Who did Suyuan ask to help look for her twins? | show 🗑
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| show | Canning thinks the possibility of the twins death,which he must have accidentally planted in her mind, grew until it killed her as an aneurysm.
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| show | After Suyuan's death, her schoolmate happened upon the long-lost sisters by accident and gave them Suyuan's addressin San Francisco.
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| What did the twins do when they recognized her and Canning when they got to the Shanghai airport? | show 🗑
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| show | As it develops, they see their mother's features come to life in their faces.
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| show | Yes as the mother's features were seen in the polaroid of the three sisters.
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| What is it that makes Waverly and Jing-mei realize they are truly their mothers' daughters? | show 🗑
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| show | Just as a tiger's tow-colored stripes lets it stalk its prey unseen, a person can use her Chinese face in some situations and her American fact in others.
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| What does Lindo and Waverly see when they look in the mirror together? | show 🗑
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| What are the meanings of "a Pair of tickets"? | show 🗑
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| What do the daughters' inherit? | show 🗑
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| show | At the very end when Jing-mei meets the sisters amd understamds the point about shared spirit.
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| What is the climax? | show 🗑
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| show | The continual theme: mothers and daughters in all generations are different "translations" of the same capable, compassionate andunbreakable spirit.
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