Préparation au baccalauréat 1: "Amy Tan" questions

Entraînement baccalauréat - séries S-ES LV1 - Amérique du Nord juin 2007

I - COMPRÉHENSION

1. Identify the six members of the narrator's family and explain how they are related to the narrator.

2. Where is the scene set at the beginning? Why has the family gone there?

3. What sort of person were they expecting to see? What is she really like? Answer the questions and justify by quoting from the text.

4. What did Kwan give the narrator? How did the narrator react? Why?

5. How did the narrator's mother take advantage of Kwan's presence in the house? Why was it particularly convenient for her?

6. What were the narrator's feelings about Kwan's presence and role in her life? What were the two reasons that generated these feelings?

7. "With Kwan around, my mother could float guiltlessly through her honeymoon with Bob." (1. 46-47) What does this sentence reveal about the mother-daughter relationship as the narrator now sees it?

8. Read the last paragraph. Sum up in your own words what happened in the garden. How did the narrator react?

9. Translate from line 56 ("I remember the day...") to line 60 ("...turned on the sprinkler system.")

II - EXPRESSION

Traitez l'un des deux sujets suivants en 300 mots (indiquez le nombre de mots) :

Sujet 1. Imagine a conversation between the mother, Kwan and the children after the scene in the garden.

Sujet 2. Adapting to a new life is not always easy. Would you be prepared to go and live in a foreign country?