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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Florence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do most of the gardeners plant?
(a) New foods to try.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Food from their native lands.
(d) Potatoes.

2. Who is the black taxi driver that runs through the garden to water lettuce?
(a) Sam.
(b) Royce.
(c) Virgil’s father.
(d) Kim's father.

3. How does Virgil know his mother’s father does not have a plot?
(a) He lives in California.
(b) He is in Mexico.
(c) She doesn’t know her father.
(d) He is dead.

4. What happens to one of the dealers at the lot in the chapter “Virgil”?
(a) A mouse bites him.
(b) He is arrested.
(c) He is shot.
(d) A rat runs up his leg.

5. What does Virgil’s father do in America?
(a) He drives a taxi.
(b) He drives an ambulance.
(c) He drives a bus.
(d) He drives a garbage truck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gonzalo hope as he helps Tio Juan?

2. What happens when a man throws a bottle into the lot in the chapter “Sam”?

3. What does Ana do with the object she dug up?

4. What does Maricela pray for?

5. What excuse does the Italian woman give for her previous rudeness to Amir?

(see the answer key)

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