Final Exam Grandfather's Chopsticks

Who is the speaker in this poem?

• a grandfather

• a grandchild

• a restaurant server

• chopsticks

In general, what specific situation or event is being described?

• being at a restaurant that serves food eaten with chopsticks

• being at a movie about superheroes

• being at a picnic

• eating food using your fingers

In the first stanza, the speaker says, "Grandfather’s chopsticks are like extra-long superhero fingers.”

This is an example of ...

• repetition

• alliteration

• simile

• end rhyme

In the poem, it says: "Grandfather's chopsticks are pretty smart: how do they know exactly what I want to eat?

This is an example of...

• an idiom

• imagery

• metaphor

• personification

Which line from the poem is using sensory details?

• the big round restaurant table

• Slippery noodles.

  Fried chicken-

  crispy skin

  and tender white meat

• able to grab anything

• Grandfather's chopsticks are pretty smart

In the last stanza, the speaker asks how the chopsticks know exactly what she wants to eat. What do you think the speaker means?

• The restaurant is her favorite.

• Her grandfather serves her the dishes that he knows are her favorites.

• The chopsticks have known the speaker for a long time.

• She only eats what is put on her plate.

What do you think this poem suggests about the relationship between the speaker and her grandfather?

• She seems to appreciate him for serving her delicious foods.

• She only spends time with him at the restaurant.

• They are not close, but enjoy the same food.

• The speaker lives with her grandfather.

What is this poem mostly about?

• What it is like to eat at a restaurant that only has chopsticks.

• How to use chopsticks when picking up food.

• The types of food you might eat at a Chinese or Thai restaurant.

• How skilled the grandfather is at using chopsticks and how he seems to know exactly what she wants to eat.

Why does the poet use the word superhero in this line?

"Grandfather's chopsticks are like extra-long superhero fingers, able to grab anything on the big round restaurant table."

• To show how amazed the speaker is by grandfather's ability to use chopsticks.

• To show how big grandfather's hands are.

• To show that only superheroes would have extra-long fingers.

• To show that grandfather only serves delicious food.

How might you change the line, "He picks up a piece of my favorite honey walnut shrimp" to have alliteration in it?

• He picks up a piece of my favorite honey walnut shrimp as easy as pie.

• He picks up a plump piece of my preferred honey walnut prawn.

• He picks up a piece of my favorite savory, spicy honey walnut shrimp.

• He picks up a piece of my favorite honey walnut tiny shrimp