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Vocabulary
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100
This means familar
What is acquainted?
100
This means eating; drinking; using up
What is consumption?
100
The narrator's brother spent much of his time do this
What is playing baseball with his friends?
100
This is why the narrator's father took his family to a fancy French restaurant
What is he wanted to celebrate his promotion at work?
100
This is the main problem of the story
What is the narrator and her family want to fit or be Americanized, but are not?
200
This means orderly
What is systematic?
200
This is where the Lins went to their first dinner party
What is the Gleasons' house?
200
This is what the narrator wanted to fit in at school with the other girls
What are jeans?
200
These are some ways the narrator felt embarrassed at the Lakeview restaurant
What is her parents brought a dictionary and flashlight to dinner and slurped their soup?
200
This is the resolution of the story
What is the Lins had a dinner party to fit in with their American neighbors?
300
This means to leave one country to settle in another
What is emigrated?
300
This is why the Lins were so embarrassed at the Gleasons' house
What is everyone was staring at them when they pulling the strings out of the celery and/ or taking their chairs to the buffet?
300
The narrator did this intentionally to get her mother to see she needed jeans
What is she rode her bike in front of her mother while wearing a skirt?
300
The Lins announced that they wanted to do this or have one of these to fit into the American culture
What is a dinner party?
300
This is the theme of the story
What is adjusting or adapting to a new culture when you move?
400
This means acceptable social manners
What is etiquette?
400
This is the country the narrator moved from to the US
What is China?
400
The narrator's father started taking these types of lessons to try to fit in
What is driving lessons?
400
The narrator's mother shows that she is adapting to American culture by using this or these at the dinner party
What is/are dinner plates, serving spoons and platters?
400
Name a similarity that the Lins share with the Gleasons
What is they both were not familiar with each other's customs at dinner?
500
This means to do something in a way that shows too much pride or satisfaction with oneself
What is smugly?
500
The narrator wasn't just embarrassed at the dinner party but she was afraid that Meg would do this
What is stop being her friend because she thought that they were weird?
500
These are some ways that the narrator's family did to try to fit in
What is mom wore high heels to PTA meetings, dad wore a suit and tie to PTA meetings, her brother joined the baseball team
500
The narrator notices this about the Gleasons at the dinner party (hint...it has to do with their food)
What is they were serving multiple foods on their plates without finishing their first serving?
500
Name a difference between the Lins and the Gleasons
What is one is American culture and one is Chinese culture?