Chicago
Thank You Ma'am
Thank You Ma'am/ Authors
Rules of the Game
Rules of the Game
100
What types of jobs are listed in the poem?
What are physical/ manual labor jobs?
100
Roger tries to steal this.
What is Mrs. Jones purse?
100
Roger offers to do this for Mrs. Jones.
What is go to the store?
100
Waverly lives here (city and section of the city)
What is San Francisco's Chinatown?
100
Who is Lau Po?
What is the man who teaches Waverly to play chess in the park?
200
The city is referred to as the "City of the ........"
What are "Big Shoulders"?
200
Mrs. Jones kicks Roger here (place on body).
What is "in the blue-jeaned sitter"?
200
Mrs. Jones works here.
What is the beauty shop?
200
Waverly asks her mother this while she is doing her hair.
What is Chinese torture?
200
The neighborhood Tao society gives this to Waverly.
What is a new chess set?
300
One "bad" thing about the city that the speaker acknowledges.
What is that the city is wicked, crooked or brutal?
300
Mrs. Jones says she is taking Roger to her house so she can do this.
What is wash his face?
300
Author of "Thank You Ma'am"
Who is Langston Hughes?
300
Waverly's nickname, Meimei, means this.
What is "Little Sister"?
300
Two ways Waverly takes advantage of her chess champion status.
What is brothers have to do chores, they have to move out of her room, she doesn't need to eat all of her dinner, etc...?
400
The speaker calls other cities this.
What is soft and little?
400
Roger wants to buy these.
What are blue suede shoes?
400
Author of "Rules of the Game"
Who is Amy Tan?
400
Waverly's brother Vincent gets the chess set here.
What is the church Christmas party?
400
The one thing Waverly cannot get out of doing by playin chess.
What is going with her mother to the markets?
500
The speaker says the city does this as it plans, builds and rebuilds (personification).
What is laughs?
500
Roger moves to the other side of the room for this reason.
What is so Mrs. Jones can see him?
500
Author of "Chicago"
Who is Carl Sandburg?
500
Waverly's mom tells the children to throw away the chess set for this reason.
What is it is obviously a hand-me-down and is missing pieces?
500
Lindo says this to Waverly at the end of the story.
What is, "We not concerning this girl. This girl not have concerning for us."
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