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Miscellaneous
Traditions, superstitions, and food
100
The gift Rich gives to Waverly that she shows her mother.
What is a mink jacket?
100
Lena lies about this when she translates her mother's words.
What is Ying-ying's abortion?
100
This name is was what the immigrating Chinese called San Francisco.
What is "Old Gold Mountain"?
100
This is the reason An-mei stops believing in God.
What is the death of her youngest son?
100
This is what Suyuan and Jing-mei feed to their dinner guests, including Waverly and her family.
What is crab?
200
Lena and Harold are both working in this industry when they meet.
What is restaurant design?
200
Waverly takes her mother here before her wedding.
What is the beauty parlor?
200
The reason Amy Tan left college.
What is the murder of her best friend?
200
Ying-ying is doing this when Amah scolds her and tells her what girls shouldn't do.
What is chasing a dragonfly?
200
An-mei makes these without thinking at the Joy Luck Club meeting.
What is wontons/dumplings?
300
Where Rose meets her husband, Ted.
What is UC Berkeley?
300
Waverly's nickname as a child.
What is Meimei?
300
Another name for the Kuomintang.
What is the Nationalist party?
300
Ying-ying says this is what's wrong with her apartment and causes her to rearrange the furniture.
What is "off balance"?
300
This is what An-mei's mother gives to HER mother to try to save her.
What is soup with a bit of her own flesh?
400
The name Ying-ying calls Clifford St. Clair when she first meets him.
What is "Saint"?
400
Lindo's mother gives this to her before her wedding.
What is a tablet of red jade?
400
The song we watched Amy Tan sing with her band.
What is "One Way or Another"?
400
The boy Lena knows as a child and believe she accidentally kills?
Who is Arnold?
400
An-mei and Lindo make this at the factory they meet at.
What are fortune cookies?
500
Ted sends this to Rose along with their divorce papers.
What is a $10,000 check.
500
The names of the twins Suyuan left in China.
What are Chwun Yu and Chwun Hwa?
500
The translation of Taiyuan, the city Lindo is from.
What is "Great Plains"?
500
These are all four of the main section titles of the book.
What are "Feathers from a Thousand Li Away", "The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates", "American Translation", and "Queen Mother of the Western Skies""
500
This is the celebration Ying-ying is going to when she falls in the water.
What is the Moon Festival?