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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. What does Amir do for a living?
(a) Owns a fabric store.
(b) Works in banking.
(c) He is a doctor.
(d) Runs a gas station.

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

3. Who from the garden community speaks to Sae Young first?
(a) Kim.
(b) Leona.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Sam.

4. What does the garden remind Amir of?
(a) A spider web.
(b) His parents’ Persian rug.
(c) A vine.
(d) The jungle.

5. What is Maricela told will help her in tea?
(a) Eggplant.
(b) Tomatoes.
(c) Goldenrod.
(d) Nutmeg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What speech impediment does Royce have?

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

3. What does Saw Young feel a part of?

4. What did Lateesha do when she learned of Curtis’ other women?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Curtis, as he is now, in terms of his priorities.

2. What causes Sae Young to feel a part of the community again?

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

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

5. How does Leona help Maricela see things differently?

6. Why does everyone in the garden want to help the girls in the chapter “Maricela”?

7. Explain what happens during the rainstorm.

8. Why does Virgil eventually feel pity for his father?

9. What is Curtis trying to show through the growth of the tomatoes?

10. Describe what Nora does to allow Mr. Myles to garden.

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