Characters
Who is the narrator of the story?
The sister in the Lin family
Where does the Lin family live? (country)
The United States
What was the narrator's family doing when they looked up and saw everyone in the party staring at them?
ripping the strings from their celery
What's the onomatopoeia: "Father took a bite of his celery. Crunch."
crunch
Who is the main characters friend?
Meg
Where did the Lins immigrate from?
China
What does the narrator realize when she drinks a milkshake with Meg?
Americans slurp too
What's the onomatopoeia: "I pulled the strings out of my stalk. Z-z-zip, z-z-zip."
Z-z-zip, z-z-zip
Who are neighbors to the Lins and invited them to dinner?
The Gleasons
Where did the Lins first "embarrass" themselves while eating?
The Gleasons dinner party.
The Lins don't understand all of the rules of American customs and manners.
What's the onomatopoeia: "They go shloop, shloop, shloop."
shloop
Which character is learning English by remembering polite phrases?
Mother
Where did the Lins have their second "embarrassing" moment while eating?
The Lakeview restaurant
What is the proper way to eat soup in the Lin's culture?
slurping it
What's the onomatopoeia: "The All American Slurp"
slurp
The narrator is worried about her appearance because...
others were wearing jeans and she only had skirts
Where did the Gleasons embarrass themselves while eating?
The Lins dinner party
What mistakes did the Lins make when it was time to eat?
They pulled up chairs to the dining table.
What is the definition of onomatopoeia?
A word that imitates a sound