The All-American Slurp Review

From whose perspective is “The All-American Slurp” told?

• Mrs. Lin’s
• the brother in the Lin family
• Meg
• the sister in the Lin family

From which point of view is this story told?

• first person point of view
• second person point of view
• third person point of view
• both first and third person point of view

What evidence from the text demonstrates the first person point of view?

• “Mrs. Gleason kept smiling, ‘Would you like to try some of the dip, Mrs. Lin?’”
• “ ‘Isn’t that risky?’ asked Mother. ‘The French eat some rather peculiar things, I’ve heard.’ ”
• “Father took a bite of his celery. Crunch. ‘Yes, it is good,’ he said, looking surprised.”
• “The first time our family was invited out to dinner in America, we disgraced ourselves while eating celery.”

In “The All-American Slurp,” how does the narrator feel the first time her family eats raw celery?

• amused
• embarrassed
• sad
• angry

Which detail from the story best supports that the narrator is embarrassed at the Gleason's dinner party?

• “In China we never ate celery raw, or any other kind of vegetable raw.”
• “There was only one problem: long strings ran through the length of the stalk…”
• “Looking up, I saw that the eyes of everyone in the room were on our family.”
• “Raw celery has a slight sparkly, a zingy taste that you don’t get in cooked celery.”

Which of the following details helps you conclude that Chinese people eat celery differently from Americans?

• The Lins give the Gleasons instructions on how to eat celery.
• The Gleasons laugh when the Lins eat celery.
• Everyone stares as the Lins eat celery.
• The Lins are the only ones who cut their celery into little pieces.

How does Meg make the narrator feel better after the dinner party at the Gleason’s house?

• Meg teases the narrator about the party until they both start to laugh.
• Meg mentions that her mother doesn’t plan for parties and just hopes for the best.
• Meg doesn’t mention anything about the party.
• Meg tells the narrator that her mother and other guests liked the Lins.

Which of the following details shows that the narrator’s brother is adjusting to American life?

• He joins the baseball team.
• He rides a bicycle better than the narrator.
• He gets good grades in school.
• He knows how to eat American food.

What can you conclude about the narrator based on how she learns English?

• She is easy-going and careless.
• She is tense and irritable.
• She is emotional and unpredictable.
• She is organized and careful.

Why does the narrator explain how each person in the Lin family learns English?

• to show how Chinese people learn English
• to prove that children learn English more easily than adults
• to show the personality of each family member
• to point out that English is a difficult language to learn