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

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

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

4. What happened to cause Sae Young to be afraid?
(a) She was robbed and shot.
(b) She was robbed and beaten.
(c) She was shot.
(d) She was raped.

5. Why does Sae Young want to join the garden?
(a) She needs the food.
(b) She misses farming at home.
(c) She likes being outdoors.
(d) She wants to be with people again.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to the radishes?

3. What does Curtis begin to worry about?

4. Why does Virgil’s dad want to plant a garden?

5. How did Sae Young’s husband die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Maricela resent being pregnant?

2. What is the point of the program for teen mothers?

3. What is Mr. Myles’ reaction to the garden?

4. What does Virgil find in the ground, and what does he eventually use it for?

5. What does Amir learn about his misconceptions of cultures?

6. Explain what happens during the rainstorm.

7. Describe Sam’s contest, and the winning idea.

8. Explain why Curtis and Lateesha originally broke up.

9. Why does Nora want to tell the tourists of the garden?

10. What happens to the lettuce in the chapter “Virgil”?

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