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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What begins to happen to Curtis’ plants?
(a) They begin to be stolen.
(b) They begin to die.
(c) They begin to sell well.
(d) They begin to overgrow.

3. What does Nora bring for Mr. Myles to plant?
(a) Flowers and fruit trees.
(b) Vegetables and fruit trees.
(c) Fruit trees.
(d) Flowers and vegetables.

4. What does Nora use to allow Mr. Myles to plant?
(a) A garbage barrel.
(b) The ground.
(c) A potting planter.
(d) A bird feeder.

5. What does Amir grow?
(a) Tomatoes.
(b) Eggplants.
(c) Lettuce.
(d) Beans.

6. Why does Virgil’s dad want to plant a garden?
(a) To feed his family.
(b) To prove he can grow things.
(c) To make money.
(d) To be part of a community.

7. What happens to one of the dealers at the lot in the chapter “Virgil”?
(a) A rat runs up his leg.
(b) A mouse bites him.
(c) He is arrested.
(d) He is shot.

8. What did Sae Young and her husband wait for that never arrived?
(a) Children.
(b) A wave of building expansion in the area.
(c) Monetary assistance.
(d) A higher income.

9. To what does Amir compare the day of the feast?
(a) New Year's.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Halloween.
(d) Harvest festival.

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

11. What does Royce and another man build in September?
(a) A house.
(b) A shelter.
(c) A birdhouse.
(d) A barbecue.

12. Who does Maricela see in the garden?
(a) Mr. Jones.
(b) Mrs. Fleck.
(c) Mrs. Jamison.
(d) Mrs. Rokke.

13. What is Royce paid for this job?
(a) Food and a sleeping bag.
(b) Room and board.
(c) Food and water.
(d) $20.

14. What was Lateesha always talking about?
(a) Tomatoes.
(b) Having a family.
(c) Leaving Cleveland.
(d) Growing old.

15. What did Virgil’s father do in Haiti?
(a) He drove a bus.
(b) He drove an ambulance.
(c) He drove a taxi.
(d) He drove a garbage truck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sae Young grow?

2. How does Virgil know his mother’s father does not have a plot?

3. Who does Maricela meet that she feels she can talk to?

4. What does one of the gardens have as a gate door?

5. Why did Sae Young and her husband find the business they bought in the U.S. their best option?

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