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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Wendell ring the plant with dirt?
(a) To hold in the water.
(b) To hold in the heat.
(c) To mark it as his.
(d) To protect it from bugs.

2. How did Gonzalo learn English?
(a) His uncle.
(b) School.
(c) TV and the playground.
(d) His mother.

3. Why does Kim choose a place behind a refrigerator?
(a) She wants it to be seen.
(b) She wants to be hidden.
(c) She wants it to be cold.
(d) She wants it to be dark.

4. What language does Tio Juan speak?
(a) An Indian language.
(b) French.
(c) English.
(d) Spanish.

5. What does Leona notice about the “vacant” lot?
(a) It has dangerous people in it.
(b) Planting in the hard soil is difficult.
(c) It is filled with bugs.
(d) It has heaps of trash.

6. What is the “Garcia Equation”?
(a) The idea that when you move to Spain, you get younger the older you are.
(b) The estimated growing season for lettuce.
(c) The idea that when you move to Mexico, you get younger the older you are.
(d) The idea that when you move to the U.S., you get younger the older you are.

7. What does Ana buy at the end of the chapter titled “Ana”?
(a) Seeds.
(b) A watering can.
(c) Binoculars.
(d) A new cane.

8. What does Sam note is a hobby of his?
(a) Selling things.
(b) Gardening.
(c) Studying words.
(d) Inventing.

9. Who calls Wendell to their apartment?
(a) Ana.
(b) Joe.
(c) Sam.
(d) Kim.

10. How old was Leona’s grandma when she died?
(a) 50.
(b) 102.
(c) 99.
(d) 80.

11. Who cleans out the lot at the beginning of the chapter “Sam”?
(a) Leona and her family.
(b) The garbage company.
(c) Prisoners.
(d) The community.

12. What does Leona do to force the city to see her?
(a) She talks to her local mayor.
(b) She gets a petition together.
(c) She takes a group to the lot to protest.
(d) She goes to the Public Health office in person.

13. How did the plants survive the cold?
(a) They didn't; they died.
(b) The refrigerator bounced back heat.
(c) Beans are cold weather plants.
(d) Kim heated them.

14. What does Ana use to dig?
(a) Her cane.
(b) A butter knife.
(c) A shovel.
(d) Her hands.

15. What does Wendell do to show the person who frightened him that he means well?
(a) He smiles.
(b) He waters all the plants.
(c) He starts a conversation.
(d) He walks away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of neighborhood is Ana’s?

2. What does Ana see Kim doing the following day, after Ana dug something up?

3. Who is Garcia?

4. How long had Kim not been tending the plants?

5. What does Kim wonder about her father?

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