Her Themes and Writing style
Who was she?
What shaped her writing?
Quotes
100

What is the name of her book?

What is Mrs. Spring Fragrance

100

What was she the first of?

What is the first writer of Chinese descent in America

100

What is her ethnicity?

What is a Chinese-Englishwoman

100

Is this a Sui Sin Far Quote?

“But children so soon forget, and after a month he seemed quite at home and played around as bright and happy as a bird.” 

What is Yes

200

What are her most general themes (three answers)

What is the mixed experience, immigrants, and gender roles

200

What was her birth name?

What is Edith Maud Eaton

200

What major political event influenced her writing?

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act

200

Is this a Sui Sin Far Quote?

"To be, or not to be, that is the question"

What is No

Bonus: Who wrote this quote?

300

What was she writing against/the purpose of her writing?

What is the critique of white male privilege

300

How many siblings does she have?

Bonus: Was she the youngest or oldest sibling?

What is the oldest of 16 children

300

What did she do in Jamaica?

What is publishing 30 articles in 6 months as a journalist before getting malaria

300

Is this a Sui Sin Far quote?

“Laughter and good humour are contagious.”

What is No

Bonus: Who wrote this quote?

400

What literary movement was she a part of?

What is American Realism and 19th-century sentimentalism

400

What does her pen name mean?

What is the Cantonese word for the flower Narcissus or Daffodil

400

How did her ethnicity affect her life?

What is having white privilege while still being connected to the Chinese community.

400

Is this a Sui Sin Far quote?

“He is a man, and it is the work of the 'Inferior Woman.'”

What is Yes

500

What stories filled the collection: Mrs Spring Fragrance?


What is children’s tales and short stories

500

Where did she live? (In order)

What is England, New Jersey, back to England, then Hudson N.Y., Montreal, Jamaica, Seattle (yay), San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, and Montreal.

500

What was her medical condition?


What is Rheumatic fever when she was 14 that gave her breathing problems

500

Is this a Sui Sin Far quote?

"YES, MY OLIVE BUD; THERE IS WHERE THY FATHER IS MAKING A FORTUNE FOR THY. THY FATHER! OH, WILT THOU NOT BE GLAD TO BEHOLD HIS DEAR FACE. 'TWAS FOR THEE I LEFT HIM."

What is Yes