| A | B |
| Who is the narrator? | Chinese American immigrant girl |
| What is the point of view? | first person |
| Who is Meg? | the narrator's best friend |
| What embarrassed the narrator at the Gleasons? | Her family didn't understand about a buffet. |
| How did the narrator get her mother to buy her jeans? | She rode a boy's bicycle. |
| What is the narrator's surname? | Lin |
| What is Meg's surname? | Gleason |
| How did Meg treat the narrator after the buffet dinner? | She acted normally toward the narrator. |
| "Then came our dinner at the Lakeview restaurant" is | foreshadowing |
| What did the narrator learn when the Gleasons ate at her house? | The Gleasons had to cope with Chinese customs. |