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Mr Kangs Birthday
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the definition of recipe? | cooking directions |
| What is the definition of foreign? | Something different |
| What does it mean to perch? | to sit on something |
| What is narrow? | a slim or small area |
| What is realistic fiction? | Realistic fiction are stories that have characters and events that are like people and events in real life. |
| What is historical fiction? | Historical fiction is a story with real life characters and the events take place in the past. |
| How do illustration enhance a story? | They show some of the action. They also show some of the beauty and emotions of the story. |
| What caused Mr. Kang to change his mind about his hua mei? | When his grandson Sam says, "I would fly out if I were a bird". He said this at the park. He realized the bird was not free. |
| What was the effect of Mr Kang changing his mind? | He lets the bird out at the park and the bird flies away. But they later find him waiting in the apartment. |
| How do you know Mr Kang thinks the hua mei should be freed? | He says that America is the land of the free. |
| What is special about Mr. Kang's birthday? | He said he became a free man on his birthday. He no longer cooks noodles everyday at the restaurant. He starts a new life. He feels free. He reads, writes poems, drinks tea, eats almond cakes and does many other things that he enjoys. |
| What does Mr. Kang do during the days after his birthday? | Mr Kang reads the NY Times, drinks tea and eats sweet almond cake. He paints a poem with and hang it up. He cleans the cage and his bird. He feeds hua mei food from a special recipe. He reads his peoms to the bird. Sam visits on Sat. and he goes to the pa |
| What is chilly? | Cool |
| What is foolish? | silly |
| What were Mr Kang's three birthday wishes? | 1. to read the New York Times everyday 2. to paint poems everyday 3.to have a hua mei (bird) of his own |
| What did Mr Kang want to do with this bird? | Keep him in a cage and take him to the Sara Delano Roosevelt park on Sundays. |
| When does Mr Kang feel locked up in a cage? | When he was at his restaurant cooking noodles for fifty years! |
| How does Mrs Kang feel about releasing the bird? | She thinks its a mistake because she tells Mr Kang to remember his three birthday wishes. |
| What does it mean to infer? | To make a decision based on details and facts you already know. |
| What is an abbreviation? | The shortened form of a word that usually begins with a capital letter (ex: Doctor is Dr., Sunday is Sun). |
| How do you write an initial for a name? | Use the first letter of a name and a period (ex: S. Wang). |