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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. Why does Kim plant something?
(a) Her brother asks her to.
(b) She wants her father to know her.
(c) It is a school project.
(d) Her mother asks her to.

2. What does Kim wonder about her father?
(a) If he misses her.
(b) If his spirit knows her.
(c) If he can see her.
(d) If he is alive.

3. Where does Kim think someone might be sleeping?
(a) A couch in a vacant lot.
(b) The couch in the living room.
(c) The sewers.
(d) The back of a car.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Tio Juan distraught?

2. Why does Kim choose a place behind a refrigerator?

3. How long had Kim not been tending the plants?

4. Who helps Sam with his water?

5. Who frightens Wendell?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Wendell mean when he discusses the phrase “And a little child shall lead them”?

3. At the end of this chapter “Sam,” why does Sam claim the garden is a reflection of Cleveland?

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

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

6. How does Sam try to make people in the neighborhood friendlier?

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

8. How do the plants give Wendell hope?

9. What is the problem with water in the lot, and how does Sam deal with it?

10. Why does Kim wonder about whether her father sees her?

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