WorksheetsKen Liu - The Paper Menagerie - Vocabulary
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
“… she pulled a sheet of wrapping paper from on top of the fridge.”
paper for baking
paper for writing
paper for presents
paper to wrap food in
“I laughed, startled, and stroked its back.”
moved back
laughed out loud
screamed
cried
“She breathed into them so that they shared her breath, and thus moved with her life.”
The infinitive of the verb is…
to breathe
to breath
to breathen
to brood
“Contempt felt good, like wine.”
knowing everything
thinking something/someone is below you
happiness
“He flew back to Connecticut and…”
The infinitive of this verb is...
to flee
to flow
to fly
to flew
“I would then have to blow into them to re-inflate them so they could run around some more.”
make flat again
remove all air
fill with air again
become more expensive
“I dried him out in the sun, but his legs became crooked after that”
unstable
not straight
wet
shorter
“However, after a while he became soggy”
dirty
broken
full of water
alive
“Mom made a new shark for me, this time out of tin foil.”
aluminum
plastic
paper
steel
“When I was ten, we moved to a new house across town.”
in another town
in the neighbouring town
on the other side of the same town
“Your Mom makes toys for you from trash?”
paper
garbage
tin foil
“ "We are not other families." I looked at him. Other families don't have moms who don't belong.”
not born in America
who don’t act like Americans
that are illegal in the country
She probably left Laohu in a pretty hidden corner because he looked so shabby.
ugly
discolored
in bad shape
sad
“I went to the computer to check the Internet. Today was Qingming."
Christmas
feast of the dead
Chinese Easter
New Year
“Your grandparents were both from very poor peasant families with few relatives.”
slave
merchant
farmer
“We made paper birds to chase grasshoppers away from the fields, and paper tigers to keep away the …”
mouses
mouse
mice
mices
“In the suburbs of Connecticut, I was lonely."
center of the city
outside the city center
dangerous part of the city
skyscrapers
“I snuck away one night and climbed onto a freight train going south.”
The infinitive of this verb is...
to snuck
to snick
to sneak
to snack
What is the name of the main character in the story?
Jack
Laohu
Mother
Mark
The main theme of the story is…
racism
papercraft aka origami
China
Self-Acceptance
"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?
