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Mary laid her baby in the ________.
manger
My clothing was dirty & messy, and I looked _______.
shabby
When I went to the restaurant, I tried some black ________.
fungus
There was a lot of _______ when Santa’s sleigh landed on the roof.
clamor
Everyone _____ when the principal talked about after-school detention.
murmured
I had to help the ________ get ready for church.
minister
Our teacher always tried to have the best __________.
manners
_________ are very similar to shrimp.
prawns
When Amy Tan’s visitors arrived, their paper packages were _______.
rumpled
Grandpa enjoyed eating his large meal and then ______.
belched
I was ________ to see that everyone’s test grade was very high!
astonished
I cannot _______ up enough energy to stay up past midnight.
muster
The boy _______ when he smelled the rotten food.
grimaced
I fell in love with the ________son the winter I turned fourteen.
minister's
He was not Chinese, but as white as Mary in the ______.
manger
What would Robert think of our ______ Chinese Christmas?
shabby
She was pulling black veins out of the backs of fleshy ______.
prawns
And then they arrived – the minister's family and all my relatives in a clamor of doorbells and _______ Christmas packages.
rumpled
My relatives _______ with pleasure when my mother brought out the whole steamed fish. Robert grimaced.
murmured
At the end of the meal my father leaned back and ______ loudly, thanking my mother for her fine cooking.
belched
"It's a polite Chinese custom to show you are satisfied," explained my father to our ______ guests.
astonished
The minister managed to _____ up a quiet burp.
muster
"But inside you must always be Chinese. You must be proud you are different. Your only shame is to have _____."
shame
Who said this: "Amy, your favorite," he said, offering me the tender fish cheek?
her father
What is Amy, the author's, last name?
Tan