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WorksheetsFish Cheeks Reading Comprehension
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 14mins
What does the menu description in paragraph 3 reveal about how the narrator views her family's cultural traditions?
She views them as humorous.
She views them as disgusting.
She views them as honorable.
She views them as annoying.
How does the narrator's embarrassed attitude towards her culture affect the way she describes events in the passage?
She describes the food as foreign and unappealing.
She focuses on her desire to be more "American."
She focuses on her crush's reactions to her family.
She criticizes every little detail of her mother's cooking.
Which piece of evidence best reveals the narrator's feelings about her family's behavior during dinner?
"And then they arrived — the minister's family and all my relatives in a clamor of doorbells and rumpled Christmas packages." (Paragraph 4)
"Robert and his family waited patiently for platters to be passed to them." (Paragraph 5)
"I was stunned into silence for the rest of the night." (Paragraph 6)
"And even though I didn't agree with her then, I knew that she understood how much I had suffered during the evening's dinner." (Paragraph 8)
What does the narrator think about her Chinese Christmas?
She is proud of it
She is ashamed of it
She is indifferent towards it
She is excited about it
What is the purpose of the narrator's mother serving a strange menu for Christmas Eve dinner?
To impress the minister's family
To showcase the narrator's favorite foods
To highlight the cultural differences between Chinese and American traditions
To experiment with new recipes
What does the narrator's mother tell her about being Chinese?
She should be proud of her heritage
She should be ashamed of her heritage
She should try to be more like American girls
She should embrace her differences
How does the narrator feel about her culture at the end of the passage?
She is still ashamed of it
She is proud of it
She is indifferent towards it
She is confused about it
What is the true purpose behind the particular menu for Christmas Eve dinner?
To upset the narrator
To impress the minister's family
To showcase the narrator's favorite foods
To teach the narrator a lesson about cultural pride
