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DINING ETIQUETTE QUIZ:

                1. — On which side of the plate should you leave your napkin when your meal is finished?

2. — Is it proper etiquette for your wrists to be on the table during a meal?

3. — Should soup be spooned toward or away from you?

4. — Are you allowed to tilt the soup bowl when it runs low?

5. — Which bread plate belongs to you … the one to your right or left?

6. — During a dinner, which guest seat is considered the ‘seat of honor?’’

7. — What is the significance of the label “bone china” behind a dinner plate?

8. –When are French Fries not considered a ‘finger food’?

9. –How many fingers should be used to pick up your ‘finger food’?

                10. –When should you use the spoon or fork that is placed above your plate?

 

Answers:

1-Left. 2–Wrists are allowed, elbows are not. 3-Away. 4-Yes – the bowl should be tilted away from your body. 5-Left. 6-The seat to the right of the host. 7-The plate contains up to 50 percent of ground animal bones in its composition. 8-When the fries are a part of a meal that is not a finger food: e.g. fish and chips. 9-Three fingers. 10-After the entrée is removed. The utensils above the plate should be pulled down to dining position.

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Phillipa Morrish is the president of Etiquette Training International.