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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Penny involve the garden?
(a) She is trying to help the mothers grow food.
(b) She is trying to help the mothers gain community standing.
(c) She is trying to help the mothers learn discipline.
(d) She is trying to help the mothers learn to appreciate life.

2. What does Sae Young purchase to help in Sam’s contest?
(a) Three funnels.
(b) Jugs for water.
(c) Hoses.
(d) Garbage cans.

3. What does Virgil’s father promise he will buy?
(a) Tickets to Haiti.
(b) A new car.
(c) An eighteen-speed bike.
(d) A new house.

4. What is the winning solution to Sam’s contest?
(a) Carry water from the basement apartments.
(b) Put in a sprinkler system.
(c) Run a hose from the spigot outside.
(d) Let the rainwater run through the spouts to garbage cans.

5. What happens to the radishes?
(a) An animal wipes them out.
(b) They are under-watered.
(c) They die of disease.
(d) They are over-watered.

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

7. What did Sae Young and her husband buy when they arrived in the U.S.?
(a) A beauty salon.
(b) A grocery store.
(c) A dry cleaning store.
(d) A restaurant.

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

9. What does Virgil find in the dirt?
(a) A bracelet.
(b) A locket.
(c) An earring.
(d) A watch.

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

11. What does the sign Curtis creates say?
(a) Curtis's garden.
(b) Lateesha’s Tomatoes.
(c) Curtis's tomatoes.
(d) Curtis's house.

12. What does Curtis grow for Lateesha?
(a) Tomatoes.
(b) Onions.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Beans.

13. Why can Mr. Myles not speak?
(a) He has had several strokes.
(b) He is deaf.
(c) He has no tongue.
(d) He is mute.

14. How does Virgil know his mother’s father does not have a plot?
(a) He is in Mexico.
(b) He is dead.
(c) He lives in California.
(d) She doesn’t know her father.

15. What does one of the gardens have as a gate door?
(a) A wooden door.
(b) Barbed wire.
(c) A car door.
(d) A piece of plastic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Royce and another man build in September?

2. What does Saw Young feel a part of?

3. Who does Maricela see in the garden?

4. What does the program Maricela is in help with?

5. Why does the third grade teacher go yell at someone in “Maricela”?

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