Rules of the game vocabulary review

The main character of the story "Rules of the Game" is a girl who grew up in

• New York

• Queens

• Chinatown, San Francisco

She didn't think she was poor because she

• always played in the back alley

• always had a five course meal

• always played chess

• always shrieked with laughter

She lived with her mother in a clean, two bedroom

• flat

• house

• room

She remembers her apartment filled with the ...

• odors from downstairs bakery

• sunlight from the window

• noises from the street

She liked the herb shop because it was very

• noisy

• expensive

• fragrant

She said that the best playground for her was a

• school yard

• park

• back alley

One day she was upset at her mother because she was

• yanking and twisting her hair

• cooking her dinner

• screaming at her

Her mother was trying to do a tightly wound

• pastries

• pigtails

• alley

So the girl tried to make fun of her mother and asked her: "Ma, what is Chinese_____?

• medicine

• herb shop

• torture

The mother said that Chinese do the best torture. She was completely _____ that the daughter was making fun of her

• insolent

• boastful

• oblivious