All American Slurp

Throughout the story, the narrator's main hope is that...

• she will learn English and succeed in school

• her brother will make the baseball team and have friends

• her family will become like a normal American family

Why is the narrator embarrassed at the Lakeview restaurant?

• Her father yells at the waiter in Chinese.

• Her family makes loud noises as they slurp their soup.

• She spills her soup all over the floor.

How does the narrator most likely feel after Meg tells her that all American's slurp?

• surprised and relieved

• scared and nervous

• brave and fortunate

What image in the story does not help convey the story's theme?

• The image of Meg slurping her milkshake.

• The image of the Gleason's piling their plates high with food.

• The image of the beautifully arranged food at the Lin's house.

What does the narrator realize during the Gleason's visit to the Lin's house?

• The Gleason's have better manners than the Lin's do.

• The Gleason's have as much difficulty eating new foods as the Lin's had.

• The Gleason's are not polite.

What point of view is "All-American Slurp" told in?

• 1st Person

• 2nd Person

• 3rd Person Limited

• 3rd Person Omniscient

What does the reader not know as a result of the story's first-person point of view?

• How embarrassed the narrator is of her family's table manners

• The events in the narrator's new friendship with Meg

• That Meg slurps her milkshake at Dairy Queen

• What the narrator's parents think of the Gleasons' table manners

Why does the author include the imagery "the glistening pink prawns"?

• To demonstrate the Gleason's enjoyment of their food

• To show how unusual the narrator's family's food might appear

• To explain why the narrator wanted jeans.

• To provide an example of what the Gleasons usually ate

Read this sentence from page 337. Even the customer didn't notice anything at first, being also too hypnotized by the schloop, schloop, schloop.

The author includes the sensory details in the sentence in order to ...

• emphasize how the Lins' table manners differed from the people around them.

• describe similarities between the Lins' table manners and those of the other people in the restaurant.

• show how comfortable the narrator feels with her family.

• point out that the Lins are purposefully being rude.

How would you describe the story’s MOOD in “The All-American Slurp” as the Lin family sits in the Gleason’s living room?

• Comfortable

• Hilarious

• Embarrassing

• Calm and quiet