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No Name Woman - Maxine Hong Kingston


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No Name Woman - Maxine Hong Kingston


Study questions

Slide 1 - Slide

What is the Gold Mountain? What is the origin of this name?

Slide 2 - Open question

Why does Kingston's mother tell her the story of her aunt? what message does it send?

Slide 3 - Open question

Why would the men in Kingston's family leave to America?

Slide 4 - Slide

Why is the aunt a "No Name Woman"?

Slide 5 - Open question

Why does this book have the subtitle "A Girlhood Among Ghosts"?

Slide 6 - Open question

What is "talk-story"?

Slide 7 - Open question

Quote how the villiage raided the house.

Slide 8 - Open question

What is the status of a woman in Chinese culture? Support your answers with quotes from the text.

Slide 9 - Open question

How does Kingston tell the story of her aunt? Why does she tell it this way?

Slide 10 - Open question

Where did the aunt (no name woman) gave birth to her child?
A
A hospital
B
A pigsty
C
Her home
D
In america

Slide 11 - Quiz

What comes first in old China, the individual or the community? How is this diffrent in the US?

Slide 12 - Open question

Why is Kingston so focused on space in the discription of het aunt?

Slide 13 - Open question

Why does Kingston say that she has participated in her aunt's punishment?

Slide 14 - Open question

Why did the aunt take her child with her when committing suicide in the well?

Slide 15 - Slide

End study questions

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