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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kim wonder about her father?
(a) If he misses her.
(b) If he can see her.
(c) If his spirit knows her.
(d) If he is alive.

2. What has Kim done to her own plants in the chapter “Wendell”?
(a) Removed them.
(b) Trimmed them.
(c) Killed them.
(d) Ringed them with dirt.

3. What does Ana find when she digs something up?
(a) Drugs.
(b) A locket.
(c) Money.
(d) A bean plant.

4. Why did Gonzalo’s father make Gonzalo talk to everyone for him?
(a) Because his father was mute.
(b) Because his father was shy.
(c) Because his father was deaf.
(d) Because his father couldn’t speak English.

5. What does Wendell do for a living?
(a) He is a school janitor.
(b) He is unemployed.
(c) He is a police offer.
(d) He is a teacher.

6. What type of neighborhood is Ana’s?
(a) Elitist.
(b) Impoverished.
(c) Working class.
(d) White collar.

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

8. How long had Kim not been tending the plants?
(a) Over a month.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Four days.
(d) One day.

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

10. What does Sam note at the end of his Chapter about the garden?
(a) It is turning from Eden back into Cleveland.
(b) It is a safe haven.
(c) It is turning from Cleveland into Eden.
(d) It is a waste of time.

11. Where did Leona grow up?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Las Vegas.

12. What does Sam grow?
(a) Carrots.
(b) Pumpkins.
(c) Eggplant.
(d) Beans.

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

14. What did Kim’s father do for a living?
(a) He was a drug dealer.
(b) He was a mechanic.
(c) He was a doctor.
(d) He was a farmer.

15. What does Ana suspect this person burying something actually buried?
(a) A dead baby.
(b) A doll.
(c) Guns or drugs.
(d) A bean plant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ana blame for the loss of population?

2. What does Sam note about the trash in the lot?

3. What does Ana do with the object she dug up?

4. Whose picture is Kim staring at during the opening of the book?

5. How does Leona prepare for a day of calling the government?

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