"The All-American Slurp" by Lensey Namioka

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.”

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

• amused
• embarrassed
• sad
• angry

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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.”

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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.

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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

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Which of the following details best identifies a setting?

• “Before I started peddling, I heard her voice behind me.”
• “The promotion not only brought a higher salary, but was also a tremendous boost to his pride.”
• “But I had another worry, and that was my appearance.”
• “After arriving at the Gleason’s house, we shook hands with our hosts…”

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Which of the following best identifies the central conflict of the story?

• The Lins want to go back to China.
• The Lins are trying to fit in to American society.
• The Lins do not like Americans very much.
• The Lins will never learn to be comfortable in American society.

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Which of the following details best explains the central conflict?

• “Next day we took the bus downtown and Mother bought me a pair of jeans.”
• “We had emigrated to this country from China.”
• “We didn’t eat pot-stickers that evening, and Mother was thoughtful.”
• “As any respectable Chinese knows, the correct way to eat your soup is to slurp.”

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Which of the following details best shows the narrator’s embarrassment at the Lakeview Restaurant?

• “The bottle continued to pour, and red wine flooded the tabletop and into the lap of a customer.”
• “We showed our appreciation. Shloop, went my father. Shloop, went my mother.”
• “I retreated into one of the toilet cubicles and latched the door.”
• “In the weeks following, I managed to push the whole thing into the back of my mind…”

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Which of the following best states the theme from “The All-American Slurp”?

• Chinese and American cultures are very different.
• It is not wise to move to a strange land.
• No matter where a person travels, good manners are important.
• Cultures may be different, but people are not so different from one another.

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