PLEASE FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS……

No Name Woman-By Maxine Hong Kingston, Read and answer the following questions. Answer in complete, thoughtful sentences.

1. What is the purpose of the mother “relaying” the story about the aunt?

2. The narrator’s version of her aunt’s story uses words such as “perhaps” or “it could very well have been”….why do you think the narrator says this?

3. Who were the strangers who raided the house? Why did they do this?

4. What did it mean to sit at the outcast table?

5. Why did the aunt take her life?

6. Why do you think she chose to take her life in the family’s well water? What could this represent?