The Joy Luck Club Preface

2. A mother's hopes and expectations become her daughter's sense of _____________.
6. How old was Amy Tan when she began writing fiction?
7. Our author is ____________-American.
9. Amy Tan considers herself a ________, not prone to outlandish dreams.
10. The author's brother and father were both stricken with _________ _________ six months apart.
11. __________is, for the author, "a portal to a deeper understanding of [herself]".
14. With each novel, the author is shaken and exhilarated by unexpected _________.
17. The author's childhhood was ________ than the lives of her characters.
18. The name of the game played in the Joy Luck Club.
20. Most readers of The Joy Luck Club believe he book is a _____________.
21. Amy's grandmother cut a piece of ______ from her arm to make a sacrificial soup.
22. Amy's family and friends _______claimed to be a part of the novel.

1. Amy Tan's mother had which illness later in life?
2. The word used by Amy Tan to describe her reaction to her mother asking her what Amy would remember of her if she died?
3. Which book inspired Amy Tan to write The Joy Luck Club?
4. The daughters in the story are __________-born thirty-somethings.
5. How long did Amy Tan predict her books would be on the shelf?
8. Where did Amy get the news that her mother was in the hospital?
12. Where does the author take her mother to really get to know her for the first time?
13. Who is Waverly Jong's mother?
15. "Rules of the Game" is about a _______child, not necessarily about a chess player.
16. "Fiction is the ultimate _____sale."
19. The author's "children" are _______.