Garden of Happiness
  • 1. Our car _________ on the ice, but luckily, we were able to stop safely.
A) haze
B) skidded
C) mural
D) inhaled
  • 2. I _____________ deeply when my mother took a freshly baked loaf of bread from the oven.
A) lavender
B) haze
C) venture
D) inhaled
  • 3. The color __________ is a light shade of purple.
A) yellow
B) lavender
C) red
D) mural
  • 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) skidded
C) lavender
D) mural
  • 6. Most of the story takes place in ______________.
A) an apartment building
B) a garage
C) a vacant lot
D) Marisol's home
  • 7. Neighbors on Marisol's clock clear an empty lot so they can __________.
A) have a street festival
B) meet there
C) plant a garden
D) have a party
  • 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) Teenagers are painting a mural
C) All the land is divided up
D) She doesn't know what to plant
  • 9. How does Marisol feel when she finds a patch of soil for her garden?
A) annoyed that she cannot have a larger plot
B) Very happy to have a little space for herself
C) no longer interested in gardening
D) disappointed because it's so small
  • 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) 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) asks Mrs. Rodriguez for more space
C) takes a big fat seed from the pigeons
D) asks Mr. Castro for one of his seedlings
  • 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 secret evil plan
D) a small piece of land in a cemetery
  • 14. For a long time, Marisol did not know _____________.
A) what kind of seed she had planted
B) what the other neighbors had planted
C) if she'd taking care of her plant the right way.
D) how she will water her plant
  • 15. What does Marisol learn about sunflowers?
A) Sunflowers are considered weeds.
B) Sunflowers grow in many places around the world
C) The sunflower seeds taste good.
D) Sunflowers only grow in Mexico.
  • 16. How does the sunflower affect the neighborhood?
A) It spreads seed everywhere.
B) It attracts bees.
C) It makes people happy.
D) People climb up on it.
  • 17. Marisol is sad toward the end of the story because ______________.
A) she falls down in the garden and gets hurt
B) she doesn't have beans or tomatoes to eat anymore
C) her sunflower begins to wither and die
D) her friends never come back to the garden
  • 18. Why is the garden called The Garden of Happiness?
A) No one can be sad in such a pretty place.
B) Everyone thinks that a happy garden name will somehow make the vegetables grow huge.
C) It makes everyone happy to grow and raise vegetables there.
D) It is a good name for an empty lot.
  • 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 that the flower is dying, and that she can collect the seeds for next year.
C) She explains how to make salsa.
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 get her to move her car which is parked illegally.
B) Because it's her birthday.
C) To play a trick on her.
D) To show her the mural.
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