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How to keep your cool and behave yourself this Thanksgiving | Quiz

Your guide to getting through family dinner and the rest of your Thanksgiving Day.

The traditional Thanksgiving meal at the Cathedral Kitchen included turkey, stuffing, potatoes, and cranberry sauce.
The traditional Thanksgiving meal at the Cathedral Kitchen included turkey, stuffing, potatoes, and cranberry sauce.Read more
    by Patrick Rapa
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Like Shark Week and The Purge, Thanksgiving is a truly American holiday. We are, despite some evidence to the contrary, a charmed nation, and this Thursday, if we’re lucky, we can gather with our families and/or loved ones and say, “Know what? I’ve got some things to be grateful for.”

Ah, but thankfulness is easy. It’s the holiday part — full of unwritten rules and annoying obligations — that can be tricky. Which brings us to this quiz, aimed to guide you through this yearly minefield of faux pas and confrontations.

Patrick Rapa is a writer living in Philadelphia.