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