Table Setting and Dining Etiquette

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Which of the following is an appropriate way to use a napkin? Options: Put the napkin on your chair when leaving your seat., Using the napkin to wipe your lips., Placing the napkin in your lap as soon as you sit down., Snapping open the napkin.

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Placing the napkin in your lap as soon as you sit down.

Front

Which of the following is a proper manner when having a conversation during the meal?  Options: Talking and eating at the same time., Keeping eye contact with the person you are addressing., Making any comments about the meal, positive or negative., Talking about sensitive topics.

Back

Keeping eye contact with the person you are addressing.

Front

Etiquette is defined as which of the following? instrument or container for cutting and carrying food, wait staff who are responsible for welcoming guests, assigning tables and taking reservations, talking while chewing, proper behavior among members of a culture or society

Back

proper behavior among members of a culture or society

Front

Back

Soup Spoon

Front

If you get up from the table during the meal, what do you do with the napkin?

Back

put in on your chair

Front

Which way does the sharp edge of the knife blade face? Options: inward, toward the plate; outward toward the spoon; It does not matter which way the sharp edge faces.

Back

inward, toward the plate

Front

What do you do if you are served something you do not like?

Back

take a polite bite

Front

How is the proper way to cut your meat? Options: Hold the fork in your right hand; hold the knife in your left hand, Use the side of the fork and your fingers to rip off a piece of meat, Cut the meat with your right hand; hold the fork in your left hand, Use the fork to hold the meat in place, after cutting the meat use the knife to pick it up

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Cut the meat with your right hand; hold the fork in your left hand

Front

If you finish eating before others at the table, you may do the following: politely wait until everyone is done and ask to be excused, jump up and run away from the table, play with your uneaten food, tell others to hurry up and finish.

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politely wait until everyone is done and ask to be excused

Front

When used in the table setting along with a salad plate, where should the bread-and-butter plate be placed?

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above the forks, to the upper left