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