Want to make a good impression and have impeccable manners at Christmas Dinner with friends and family? Here is a Christmas quiz to catch up on a few tips to keep your manners tip top! Remember: Leaders always make others feel special. Don't ever criticize anyone else if their manners are not as fine as yours.
1. Being a good guest includes offering to hang up coats, helping to serve the meal, doing dishes. T F
2. When sitting down at the table, enter on the right side of your chair (from your left hip) T F
3. Grace is said after one picks up one's napkin and places it on one's lap. T F
4. My butter plate is on my right, and my drink glass is on my left. T F
5. When passing the bread basket, it is proper to offer bread to the person on your right, take a piece yourself, then pass the bread to your left. T F
6. It is proper to rest your wrists on the table when eating Continental style. T F
7. It is proper to leave the table anytime when you are finished with your meal. T F
8. It is proper to grab a piece of bread with your hands, tear it in half, and place the remaining half of that piece of bread back into the bread basket. T F
9. It is proper to hold the gravy boat above your plate when serving yourself gravy from the gravy ladle. T F
10. If you have to sneeze, grab your napkin, then sneeze into your napkin and blow your nose into your napkin. T F
11. The secret to the table setting universe is: Use your utensils from the outside in, T F
12. It is proper to break my roll, then butter the entire 1/2 of the roll before eating the whole thing. T F
13. With all the different dishes on my plate, it is proper to eat my food in a circle instead of eating my favorite foods first. T F
14. It is not necessary to write a "Thank You" note to the host/hostess. T F
15. I dropped my fork on the floor, so it is best to wipe it with my napkin and continue eating. T F
16. The sharp blade of the knife always faces out towards another person, not ever towards me. T F
17. When eating soup, it is proper for me to rest my soup spoon inside the soup bowl as opposed to resting it on the soup plate. T F
18. If I do not have a soup plate, it is ok for me to ask the waiter for one. T F
19. If you are not the host, it is proper to offer a toast at the beginning of a meal. T F
20. As a good guest, it is not necessary to bring a hostess gift. T F
21. Should you say something if the person next to you uses your bread & butter plate as their own? Y N
22. In India and the Middle East, it is proper to only use your right hand when eating. T F
23. It is suitable to place one's small clutch purse and cell phone on the table during a social or business luncheon or dinner. T F
24. It is proper for you to pick up a toothpick at the Captain's Desk on your way out of the restaurant and pick your teeth in public. T F
25. To signal to the waiter "I am finished" with my meal, I place my knife and fork in the 10:20 position, fork in the center and knife above the fork with the blade facing me. T F
Key:
1. T 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. T 6. T 7. F 8. F 9. T 10. F 11. T 12. F 13. F
14. F 15. F 16. F 17. F 18. T 19. F 20. F 21. N 22. T 23. T 24. F 25. T
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