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Question 1: How were the twins found?
Answer:
After Suyuan's death, her schoolmate happened upon the long-lost sisters by accident and gave them Suyuan's addressin San Francisco.
Question 2: What do the daughters' inherit?
Answer:
A sense of being Chinese that is special to them, each daughter's Chinese identity is as individual as the name her mother chose for her.
Question 3: What does Lindo think about faces and being two-faced?
Answer:
Lindo thinks being two-faced is having an American face and a Chinese face means sacrificing some of one for the other.
Question 4: Who did Suyuan ask to help look for her twins?
Answer:
Over the years, Suyuan wrote to many old friends in China asking them to look for the twins.
Question 5: Why did she abandon the twins?
Answer:
She had dysentery and did not was her babies to die with her.
Question 6: What does Suyuan's name mean?
Answer:
Suyuan's name means "Long-Cherished Wish" written one way, and "Long-Held Grudge" written another.
Question 7: What are the meanings of "a Pair of tickets"?
Answer:
Chwun Yu and Chwun Hwas are themselves "a pair of tickets" in fulfiling Suyuan's wish, and in Jing-mei's heritage & relaitonship with Suyuan, and might need their own "pair of tickets" to get back to America, Question 8: Who describes how her daughter, Waverly, was upset when she told her that she did not look Chinese?
Answer:
Lindo Jong.
Question 9: What did Waverly think about herself?
Answer:
Waverly felt that only her skin and hair were Chinese, but inside, she was All American-made.
Question 10: What did Canning think caused An-mei's aneurysm?
Answer:
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.
Question 11: What namesdid Lindo give to her sons she had for Ting Jong?
Answer:
Lindo gave her sons names that sounded lucky: "Wins ton" and "Wins cent".
Question 12: Why ere Jing-mei and her sisters the only links to their mother's past?
Answer:
A bomb struck their house and all of Suyuan's family died.Question 13: What does Lindo and Waverly see when they look in the mirror together?
Answer:
Not only their own faces, but all the past home of therir mothers and the future hopes of their daughters.
Question 14: Who was Canning Woo?
Answer:
Jing-mei's father
Question 15: Why did Waverly want to look Chinese?
Answer:
Because it was now fashionable to be Chinese in American and she wanted to claim her heritage, but only her skin and hair are Chinese.Question 16: What is it that makes Waverly and Jing-mei realize they are truly their mothers' daughters?
Answer:
Their physical appearances
Question 17: Where did she take Lindo to be introduced to Ting Jong?
Answer:
The Frist Chinese Baptist Church
Question 18: Why did Ting and Lindo have to communicate by writing things down?
Answer:
Because Ting was Cantonese and Lindo spoke only Mandarin, and both were learning only a little English.Question 19: What did Lindo learn that she should gain the respect of Americans ?
Answer:
Become religious
Question 20: Who tells Jing-mei the story of why her mother abandoned her sisters in China.
Answer:
Canning Woo, her father.
Question 21: When does the climax come in the story?
Answer:
At the very end when Jing-mei meets the sisters amd understamds the point about shared spirit.Question 22: Who received the letter from An-mei's twin daughters and gave it to the Joy Luck Club ladies?
Answer:
Canning Woo.
Question 23: What does Jing-mei mean?
Answer:
Jing means "pure essence" and mei means "younger sister", Jing-mei is her mother's long-cherished wishe...the essence of her sisters.Question 24: Why did Suyuan have to abandon everything on her way to fin her husband when she fled Kweilin during the war?
Answer:
Suyuan was horribly weak with dysentery.
Question 25: Was Ani-mei already married when she met Lindo?
Answer:
Yes Question 26: What did they see in the polaroid Canning took of the three sisters together?
Answer:
As it develops, they see their mother's features come to life in their faces.Question 27: Why did Lindo Jong want to look more like her own mother when she was a child in China?
Answer:
Because her mother pointed out all the signs of good luck in their similar features.