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Ken Liu - The Paper Menagerie - Vocabulary

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

“… she pulled a sheet of wrapping paper from on top of the fridge.”

a)

paper for baking

b)

paper for writing

c)

paper for presents

d)

paper to wrap food in

2.

“I laughed, startled, and stroked its back.”

a)

moved back

b)

laughed out loud

c)

screamed

d)

cried

3.

“She breathed into them so that they shared her breath, and thus moved with her life.”

The infinitive of the verb is…

a)

to breathe

b)

to breath

c)

to breathen

d)

to brood

4.

Contempt felt good, like wine.”

a)

knowing everything

b)

thinking something/someone is below you

c)

happiness

5.

“He flew back to Connecticut and…”

The infinitive of this verb is...

a)

to flee

b)

to flow

c)

to fly

d)

to flew

6.

“I would then have to blow into them to re-inflate them so they could run around some more.”

a)

make flat again

b)

remove all air

c)

fill with air again

d)

become more expensive

7.

“I dried him out in the sun, but his legs became crooked after that”

a)

unstable

b)

not straight

c)

wet

d)

shorter

8.

“However, after a while he became soggy

a)

dirty

b)

broken

c)

full of water

d)

alive

9.

“Mom made a new shark for me, this time out of tin foil.”

a)

aluminum

b)

plastic

c)

paper

d)

steel

10.

“When I was ten, we moved to a new house across town.”

a)

in another town

b)

in the neighbouring town

c)

on the other side of the same town

11.

“Your Mom makes toys for you from trash?”

a)

paper

b)

garbage

c)

tin foil

12.

“ "We are not other families." I looked at him. Other families don't have moms who don't belong.”

a)

not born in America

b)

who don’t act like Americans

c)

that are illegal in the country

13.

She probably left Laohu in a pretty hidden corner because he looked so shabby.

a)

ugly

b)

discolored

c)

in bad shape

d)

sad

14.

“I went to the computer to check the Internet. Today was Qingming."

a)

Christmas

b)

feast of the dead

c)

Chinese Easter

d)

New Year

15.

“Your grandparents were both from very poor peasant families with few relatives.”

a)

slave

b)

merchant

c)

farmer

16.

“We made paper birds to chase grasshoppers away from the fields, and paper tigers to keep away the …”

a)

mouses

b)

mouse

c)

mice

d)

mices

17.

“In the suburbs of Connecticut, I was lonely."

a)

center of the city

b)

outside the city center

c)

dangerous part of the city

d)

skyscrapers

18.

“I snuck away one night and climbed onto a freight train going south.”

The infinitive of this verb is...

a)

to snuck

b)

to snick

c)

to sneak

d)

to snack

19.

What is the name of the main character in the story?

a)

Jack

b)

Laohu

c)

Mother

d)

Mark

20.

The main theme of the story is…

a)

racism

b)

papercraft aka origami

c)

China

d)

Self-Acceptance

21.

"She turned the paper over and folded it again. She pleated,

packed, tucked, rolled, and twisted until the paper disappeared

between her cupped hands."

How many verbs are there in this quote that refer to operations you do with paper?