The Joy Luck Club

This flexible-use quiz is designed for reading comprehension assessment and activity needs in classroom, home-schooling and other settings. Questions connect to the text’s plot, characters, and themes — and align with the content and chapter organization in the rest of this study guide. Use quizzes as pre-reading hooks, reading checks, discussion starters, entrance/exit “tickets,” small group activities, writing activities, and lessons on finding evidence and support in a text.

Depth of Knowledge Levels: Questions require respondents to demonstrate ability to: 

1. Recall and Understand Content (e.g., who, what, where, when) 
2. Apply and Analyze Ideas (e.g., how and why)

1. In “Feathers from a Thousand Li Away,” the fable that begins Part I, why does the woman not tell her daughter about the single swan feather she has been holding onto?

A) She believes the feather will lose its magical powers if she tells anyone about it.

B) She is waiting until she speaks perfect English to tell her.

C) She is ashamed that she lost the rest of the swan.

D) She is waiting until they can visit China so the story will make sense to her.

2. What does Suyuan reveal happened to her twin baby girls when she fled Kweilin?

A) She left them at the house of a Japanese official who promised to care for them.