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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leona do that hurries things along with the city?
(a) She has the petition signed.
(b) She has the mayor with her.
(c) She opens the garbage bag in the office.
(d) She begins to have the group chant.

2. Why has Kim never seen her father?
(a) He left them.
(b) He is still in China.
(c) He died before she was born.
(d) She is blind.

3. What does Wendell do the following Monday?
(a) Talks to Kim.
(b) Dies.
(c) Helps Ana start a garden.
(d) Begins his own garden in the lot.

4. What does Sam try to do in the world?
(a) Learn all the languages.
(b) Fix fences.
(c) Patch up the world.
(d) Learn the dictionary.

5. What happens when Leona tries calling around?
(a) She is immediately given answers.
(b) She gives up.
(c) She is given the run around.
(d) She becomes annoyed.

6. In what year did Ana move into the area?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1919.

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

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

9. Whose picture is Kim staring at during the opening of the book?
(a) Her brother's.
(b) Her father's.
(c) Her sister's.
(d) Her mother's.

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

11. What does Ana see Kim doing the following day, after Ana dug something up?
(a) Dealing drugs.
(b) Planting new items.
(c) Digging up the object.
(d) Watering the plant.

12. 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.

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

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

15. What does Kim hope will happen in the photo at the beginning of the book?
(a) Her father’s eyes will move.
(b) Her mother will speak.
(c) Her brother will walk.
(d) Her sister will move.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kim wonder about her father?

2. Where does Gonzalo find Tio Juan?

3. Who is Garcia?

4. Gonzalo says Tio Juan recognizes the seeds like what?

5. Why does Leona know about complaining to officials?

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