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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Mexican family do that entices others?
(a) Roast a pig.
(b) Give away vegetables.
(c) Leave their garden.
(d) Start a fight.

2. What problem does Sam’s contest try to solve?
(a) The bug problem.
(b) The drug problem.
(c) The water problem.
(d) The theft problem.

3. What reason does Virgil’s father give for planting multiple areas?
(a) He is experimenting with plants.
(b) He pays a higher rent.
(c) He needs to feed his family.
(d) He is planting for relatives.

4. Why is Maricela having a difficult time in life?
(a) She is a middle aged Mexican woman with little education.
(b) She is a young Vietnamese girl with no father.
(c) She is an old Italian woman with no husband.
(d) She is teenaged Mexican girl who is pregnant.

5. What does Curtis see when he looks up at the end of the chapter “Curtis”?
(a) Another girl, watching him admiringly.
(b) Lateesha, watching him.
(c) An angel.
(d) His mother, smiling at him.

6. Where is Amir from?
(a) Iran.
(b) Jamaica.
(c) Turkey.
(d) India.

7. What does the garden remind Amir of?
(a) A vine.
(b) The jungle.
(c) A spider web.
(d) His parents’ Persian rug.

8. Why does the third grade teacher go yell at someone in “Maricela”?
(a) He threw a bottle into the garden.
(b) She threw food waste into the garden.
(c) She threw a tire into the garden.
(d) She threw urine into the garden.

9. What does Virgil do with the item he found in the lot?
(a) Gives it to his mother.
(b) Gives it to his father.
(c) Prays for the lettuce.
(d) Throws it away.

10. Who does Nora ache to tell of the garden?
(a) Tourists.
(b) Mr. Myles.
(c) Her children.
(d) Her husband.

11. What does Curtis begin to worry about?
(a) Being shot.
(b) Blight.
(c) Drought.
(d) Dying.

12. Where does Curtis plant his plants?
(a) In front of Lateesha’s window.
(b) Behind the corn.
(c) In the back of Lateesha’s house.
(d) Above the ledge.

13. What does Royce do in exchange for food?
(a) He cleans apartments.
(b) He runs errands.
(c) He beats people up.
(d) He is a handyman.

14. What did Lateesha do when she learned of Curtis’ other women?
(a) She begged him to stay with her.
(b) She moved away.
(c) She cried.
(d) She left him.

15. Why do cats like the garden?
(a) They eat the rabbits.
(b) They eat the plants.
(c) Someone buried sardines.
(d) It is cooler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Amir grow?

2. What does Sae Young compare the garden community to?

3. Why does Penny involve the garden?

4. What happens to his shovel when Virgil tries to dig?

5. To what does Amir compare the day of the feast?

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