Garden of Happiness - Quiz
  • 1. Our car _________ on the ice, but luckily, we were able to stop safely.
A) haze
B) skidded
C) inhaled
D) mural
  • 2. I _____________ deeply when my mother took a freshly baked loaf of bread from the oven.
A) lavender
B) venture
C) haze
D) inhaled
  • 3. The color __________ is a light shade of purple.
A) mural
B) red
C) lavender
D) yellow
  • 4. The _________ that filled the sky made it hard to see the mountains.
A) haze
B) skidded
C) lavender
D) mural
  • 5. In our city, each school painted a ___________ on the side of a building.
A) inhaled
B) skidded
C) mural
D) lavender
  • 6. Most of the story takes place in ______________.
A) a garage
B) a vacant lot
C) an apartment building
D) Marisol's home
  • 7. Neighbors on Marisol's clock clear an empty lot so they can __________.
A) have a party
B) have a street festival
C) meet there
D) plant a garden
  • 8. Why can't Marisol have a garden plot like the other people have?
A) She didn't help clean up the vacant lot
B) All the land is divided up
C) Teenagers are painting a mural
D) She doesn't know what to plant
  • 9. How does Marisol feel when she finds a patch of soil for her garden?
A) disappointed because it's so small
B) no longer interested in gardening
C) annoyed that she cannot have a larger plot
D) Very happy to have a little space for herself
  • 10. What problem does Marisol have with her garden?
A) She has to learn how to plant things
B) She is working with a very small area
C) She can't find time to work on her garden
D) She needs to find something to plant
  • 11. What problem does Marisol share with the teenagers?
A) They wanted to play instead of working
B) No one had money
C) No one liked planting
D) None of them knew exactly what to do with their project
  • 12. To solve her problem, Marisol ____________.
A) asks Mr. Castro for one of his seedlings
B) asks Mrs. Rodriguez for more space
C) decides that the space is too small, and gives up
D) takes a big fat seed from the pigeons
  • 13. Marisol often sees Mr. Ortiz in his plot, resting in a chair. In this selection, plot means ____________.
A) a secret evil plan
B) the main events in a story
C) a small area planted with vegetables
D) a small piece of land in a cemetery
  • 14. For a long time, Marisol did not know _____________.
A) if she'd taking care of her plant the right way.
B) how she will water her plant
C) what the other neighbors had planted
D) what kind of seed she had planted
  • 15. What does Marisol learn about sunflowers?
A) The sunflower seeds taste good.
B) Sunflowers grow in many places around the world
C) Sunflowers are considered weeds.
D) Sunflowers only grow in Mexico.
  • 16. How does the sunflower affect the neighborhood?
A) It makes people happy.
B) People climb up on it.
C) It attracts bees.
D) It spreads seed everywhere.
  • 17. Marisol is sad toward the end of the story because ______________.
A) she falls down in the garden and gets hurt
B) her friends never come back to the garden
C) her sunflower begins to wither and die
D) she doesn't have beans or tomatoes to eat anymore
  • 18. Why is the garden called The Garden of Happiness?
A) It makes everyone happy to grow and raise vegetables there.
B) It is a good name for an empty lot.
C) Everyone thinks that a happy garden name will somehow make the vegetables grow huge.
D) No one can be sad in such a pretty place.
  • 19. What does Mrs. Rodriguez explain to Marisol about the sunflower?
A) She explains how to multiply using the area model, because she actually understands it.
B) She explains what the teenagers will be painting on the mural.
C) She explains how to make salsa.
D) She explains that the flower is dying, and that she can collect the seeds for next year.
  • 20. Why does everyone call Marisol to the street?
A) To get her to move her car which is parked illegally.
B) To show her the mural.
C) To play a trick on her.
D) Because it's her birthday.
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