"A Father's Secret
"A Mother's Ghost"
Father's Secret Vocabulary
Mother's Ghost Vocabulary
Questions from Family Ties
100

Where was Barack Obama, Jr. born?

In Hawaii

100

Why did Amy Tan have to impersonate her mother?

Her mother did not know how to speak English well.

100

Plans to act in a certain way

What is Intentions?

100

A synonym for the word "enemy".

Adversary

100

Obama and Tan both deal with problems of their ____________ identity.

What is their Racial?

200

Obama's ethnicity/race

What is Black and White

200

What was the title of Amy Tan's first book?

What is The Joy Luck Club?

200

Protection or shelter from danger or trouble

What is Refuge?

200

Someone who is against you.

What is an adversary?

200

Barack Obama become the _________ President of the United States.

What is the 44th

300

Obama's nickname for his grandmother

What is Toot?

300

Amy Tan's mother died from . ....

What is Alzheimer's disease?

300

To make a difference in treatment of others

What is Discrimination?

300

To pretend to be someone else

What is Impersonate?

300

Both Obama and Tan went through the process of defining themselves through their_____________.

What is their writing?

400

Barack Obama, Sr. home country.

What is Kenya

400

Why did Amy Tan vow not to "have anything to do with anything Chinese" when she left home?

She was embarrassed to be Chinese.

400

A synonym of the word "inheritance".

What is Heritage?

400

Something that is learned in a sudden and surprising way

What is Revelation?

400

Traveling to their parent's homeland helped Obama and Tan learn more about...

Their parents and themselves.

500

What was the name of the tribe which Barack Obama, Sr. was a member of?

The Luo tribe

500

When Amy Tan was rebelling against her mother, she change her college major from pre-med to ________________.

What is English?

500

A written account of important event from a person's life.

What is Memoir?

500

Air moving unsteadily or violently

What is Turbulent?

500

Obama attend __________________  _________________ for law school

What is Harvard University?