Garden of Happiness
  • 1. Our car _________ on the ice, but luckily, we were able to stop safely.
A) haze
B) inhaled
C) mural
D) skidded
  • 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) yellow
B) lavender
C) mural
D) red
  • 4. The _________ that filled the sky made it hard to see the mountains.
A) lavender
B) haze
C) mural
D) skidded
  • 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) Marisol's home
B) a vacant lot
C) a garage
D) an apartment building
  • 7. Neighbors on Marisol's clock clear an empty lot so they can __________.
A) have a street festival
B) have a party
C) meet there
D) plant a garden
  • 8. Why can't Marisol have a garden plot like the other people have?
A) All the land is divided up
B) Teenagers are painting a mural
C) She didn't help clean up the vacant lot
D) She doesn't know what to plant
  • 9. How does Marisol feel when she finds a patch of soil for her garden?
A) Very happy to have a little space for herself
B) disappointed because it's so small
C) no longer interested in gardening
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 has to learn how to plant things
C) She is working with a very small area
D) She needs to find something to plant
  • 11. What problem does Marisol share with the teenagers?
A) None of them knew exactly what to do with their project
B) No one had money
C) They wanted to play instead of working
D) No one liked planting
  • 12. To solve her problem, Marisol ____________.
A) takes a big fat seed from the pigeons
B) asks Mr. Castro for one of his seedlings
C) decides that the space is too small, and gives up
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) 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) what kind of seed she had planted
B) if she'd taking care of her plant the right way.
C) how she will water her plant
D) what the other neighbors had planted
  • 15. What does Marisol learn about sunflowers?
A) Sunflowers only grow in Mexico.
B) Sunflowers are considered weeds.
C) Sunflowers grow in many places around the world
D) The sunflower seeds taste good.
  • 16. How does the sunflower affect the neighborhood?
A) It makes people happy.
B) It spreads seed everywhere.
C) It attracts bees.
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 friends never come back to the garden
D) her sunflower begins to wither and die
  • 18. Why is the garden called The Garden of Happiness?
A) It is a good name for an empty lot.
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) 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 how to multiply using the area model, because she actually understands it.
C) She explains that the flower is dying, and that she can collect the seeds for next year.
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 play a trick on her.
C) To show her the mural.
D) To get her to move her car which is parked illegally.
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