Waverly Jong: “Four Directions”
1. Why did Waverly give up chess entirely at age fourteen?
2. Waverly intends to attack Lindo by sacrificing chess, but her move only hurts ________ , and Waverly believes that Lindo has planned it this way.
3. When Waverly returns to chess to find her prodigy gone, she realizes that part of her achievement always depended in part upon her mother’s _____________________.
4. What does Waverly feel poisoned her first marriage?
5. When Waverly visits her mother after the dinner, where Rich unwittingly commits several blunders in etiquette, why does she break down and begin to cry?
6. Why do Waverly and Rich postpone their wedding?
Rose Hsu Jordan: “Without Wood”
7. What did Rose find along with divorce papers from her husband?
8. An-mei asks Rose why she refuses to ____________________.
9. What’s Ted’s plan after their divorce?
10. When Ted arrives, what does Rose announce?
Jing-mei Woo: “Best Quality”
11. What did the couple who lived above Suyuan in the building accuse her of? (Hint: it’s about a cat.)
12. According to Suyuan, how does one know the best quality crabs?
13. Why was Waverly shocked to learn that Jin-mei still went to the same hairstylist as before?
14. According to Waverly, why had her firm not paid Jing-mei?
15. After the guests left, what did Suyuan give Jing-mei in the kitchen?
An-mei Hsu: “Magpies”
16. After Popo’s death, An-mei’s mother prepared to leave, and An-mei began to cry. What story did her mother tell her?
17. An-mei’ mother took An-mei with her to Tientsin, where she had lived in the household of a rich merchant, Wu Tsing, as his “______ wife”.
18. What did Second Wife give An-mei upon their first meeting?
19. After crushing [the answer to #18], what did An-mei’s mother give her?
20. Why did First Wife take many pilgrimages to honor Buddha?
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