Garden of Happiness
  • 1. Our car _________ on the ice, but luckily, we were able to stop safely.
A) haze
B) mural
C) inhaled
D) skidded
  • 2. I _____________ deeply when my mother took a freshly baked loaf of bread from the oven.
A) haze
B) lavender
C) inhaled
D) venture
  • 3. The color __________ is a light shade of purple.
A) lavender
B) mural
C) yellow
D) red
  • 4. The _________ that filled the sky made it hard to see the mountains.
A) lavender
B) skidded
C) mural
D) haze
  • 5. In our city, each school painted a ___________ on the side of a building.
A) lavender
B) skidded
C) inhaled
D) mural
  • 6. Most of the story takes place in ______________.
A) a vacant lot
B) Marisol's home
C) an apartment building
D) a garage
  • 7. Neighbors on Marisol's clock clear an empty lot so they can __________.
A) meet there
B) plant a garden
C) have a street festival
D) have a party
  • 8. Why can't Marisol have a garden plot like the other people have?
A) Teenagers are painting a mural
B) She doesn't know what to plant
C) All the land is divided up
D) She didn't help clean up the vacant lot
  • 9. How does Marisol feel when she finds a patch of soil for her garden?
A) disappointed because it's so small
B) Very happy to have a little space for herself
C) annoyed that she cannot have a larger plot
D) no longer interested in gardening
  • 10. What problem does Marisol have with her garden?
A) She is working with a very small area
B) She can't find time to work on her garden
C) She has to learn how to plant things
D) She needs to find something to plant
  • 11. What problem does Marisol share with the teenagers?
A) No one liked planting
B) No one had money
C) None of them knew exactly what to do with their project
D) They wanted to play instead of working
  • 12. To solve her problem, Marisol ____________.
A) decides that the space is too small, and gives up
B) takes a big fat seed from the pigeons
C) asks Mr. Castro for one of his seedlings
D) asks Mrs. Rodriguez for more space
  • 13. Marisol often sees Mr. Ortiz in his plot, resting in a chair. In this selection, plot means ____________.
A) a small area planted with vegetables
B) the main events in a story
C) a small piece of land in a cemetery
D) a secret evil plan
  • 14. For a long time, Marisol did not know _____________.
A) if she'd taking care of her plant the right way.
B) what the other neighbors had planted
C) what kind of seed she had planted
D) how she will water her plant
  • 15. What does Marisol learn about sunflowers?
A) Sunflowers only grow in Mexico.
B) The sunflower seeds taste good.
C) Sunflowers are considered weeds.
D) Sunflowers grow in many places around the world
  • 16. How does the sunflower affect the neighborhood?
A) It spreads seed everywhere.
B) People climb up on it.
C) It attracts bees.
D) It makes people happy.
  • 17. Marisol is sad toward the end of the story because ______________.
A) she falls down in the garden and gets hurt
B) her sunflower begins to wither and die
C) she doesn't have beans or tomatoes to eat anymore
D) her friends never come back to the garden
  • 18. Why is the garden called The Garden of Happiness?
A) It makes everyone happy to grow and raise vegetables there.
B) Everyone thinks that a happy garden name will somehow make the vegetables grow huge.
C) It is a good name for an empty lot.
D) No one can be sad in such a pretty place.
  • 19. What does Mrs. Rodriguez explain to Marisol about the sunflower?
A) She explains how to make salsa.
B) She explains that the flower is dying, and that she can collect the seeds for next year.
C) She explains how to multiply using the area model, because she actually understands it.
D) She explains what the teenagers will be painting on the mural.
  • 20. Why does everyone call Marisol to the street?
A) Because it's her birthday.
B) To get her to move her car which is parked illegally.
C) To show her the mural.
D) To play a trick on her.
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