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Garden of Happiness
Contributed by: Goers
  • 1. Our car _________ on the ice, but luckily, we were able to stop safely.
A) haze
B) skidded
C) inhaled
D) mural
  • 2. I _____________ deeply when my mother took a freshly baked loaf of bread from the oven.
A) haze
B) inhaled
C) lavender
D) venture
  • 3. The color __________ is a light shade of purple.
A) mural
B) lavender
C) red
D) yellow
  • 4. The _________ that filled the sky made it hard to see the mountains.
A) mural
B) haze
C) lavender
D) skidded
  • 5. In our city, each school painted a ___________ on the side of a building.
A) lavender
B) mural
C) skidded
D) inhaled
  • 6. Most of the story takes place in ______________.
A) a vacant lot
B) an apartment building
C) Marisol's home
D) a garage
  • 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) All the land is divided up
B) She doesn't know what to plant
C) She didn't help clean up the vacant lot
D) Teenagers are painting a mural
  • 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) disappointed because it's so small
C) Very happy to have a little space for herself
D) no longer interested in gardening
  • 10. What problem does Marisol have with her garden?
A) She can't find time to work on her garden
B) She is working with a very small area
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) They wanted to play instead of working
B) None of them knew exactly what to do with their project
C) No one liked planting
D) No one had money
  • 12. To solve her problem, Marisol ____________.
A) asks Mrs. Rodriguez for more space
B) decides that the space is too small, and gives up
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) a secret evil plan
B) a small area planted with vegetables
C) a small piece of land in a cemetery
D) the main events in a story
  • 14. For a long time, Marisol did not know _____________.
A) what the other neighbors had planted
B) if she'd taking care of her plant the right way.
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) Sunflowers grow in many places around the world
C) The sunflower seeds taste good.
D) Sunflowers are considered weeds.
  • 16. How does the sunflower affect the neighborhood?
A) It spreads seed everywhere.
B) It makes people happy.
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) she falls down in the garden and gets hurt
D) her sunflower begins to wither and die
  • 18. Why is the garden called The Garden of Happiness?
A) Everyone thinks that a happy garden name will somehow make the vegetables grow huge.
B) It is a good name for an empty lot.
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 what the teenagers will be painting on the mural.
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) Because it's her birthday.
B) To show her the mural.
C) To get her to move her car which is parked illegally.
D) To play a trick on her.
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