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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Leona prepare for a day of calling the government?
(a) She drinks water and listens to music.
(b) She exercises.
(c) She bakes a cake.
(d) She writes a letter first.

2. What happens when a man throws a bottle into the lot in the chapter “Sam”?
(a) Someone is killed.
(b) Someone is shot.
(c) Sam becomes angry.
(d) Another man throws the bottle back into an apartment.

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

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

5. What does Leona want to grow in the garden?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Goldenrod.
(d) Nutmeg.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Wendell say the beans were lucky to have lived?

2. How did Gonzalo learn English?

3. Why does Kim plant something?

4. Where does Gonzalo find Tio Juan?

5. What caused Ana to dig up the object she saw being burried?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Kim wants to remain hidden when she plants?

2. Why does Leona decide she needs to do something about the lot?

3. How does the chapter “Wendell” begin to show that words are not necessary to bring cultures together?

4. Why does Kim plant beans in the vacant lot?

5. What were Leona’s grandmother’s experiences with doctors?

6. What tragedies has Wendell experienced, and what are the effects on his life?

7. Why does Ana purchase binoculars at the end of the chapter titled “Ana”?

8. Why do you think Wendell becomes attached to the bean plants, as Ana did?

9. Why does Ana describe her neighborhood in terms of the cultures within it?

10. What are Leona’s experiences with calling the city?

(see the answer keys)

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