WorksheetsAll-American Slurp
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 13mins
The diners ___ praised the wonderful meal.
coping
lavishly
blouse
acquainted
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Ryan is ____ with a bad headache
coping
lavishly
blouse
acquainted
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Jon became _____ with his classmates in the new school.
coping
lavishly
blouse
acquainted
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Liz bought a _____ to go with her black pants.
coping
lavishly
blouse
acquainted
boost
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
What point of view is "All-American Slurp" told in?
1st Person
2nd Person
3rd Person Limited
3rd Person Omniscient
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.
Read this sentence from page 331.
My family beat a retreat back to the sofa as if chased by enemy soldiers.
The author includes this sentence to show that the Lin family--
is unwelcome at the Gleason's dinner party
immigrated from a country that was at war with the United States
are embarrassed because they don't fully understand American manners.
are trying to leave the dinner party as quickly as possible
Read the following sentence from page 334:
In one corner of the room a lady harpist played tinkling melodies.
From the sentence, the reader can infer that the restaurant is--
casual
glamorous
dramatic
international
