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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Kim plant something?
(a) Her mother asks her to.
(b) Her brother asks her to.
(c) It is a school project.
(d) She wants her father to know her.

2. Who frightens Wendell?
(a) Sam.
(b) Ana.
(c) Joe.
(d) Kim.

3. What does Gonzalo realize he knows of growing food?
(a) What his uncle has taught him.
(b) Everything.
(c) What his family has taught him.
(d) Nothing.

4. What does Sam note is a hobby of his?
(a) Selling things.
(b) Gardening.
(c) Studying words.
(d) Inventing.

5. How does Leona prepare for a day of calling the government?
(a) She writes a letter first.
(b) She bakes a cake.
(c) She exercises.
(d) She drinks water and listens to music.

6. What has Kim done to her own plants in the chapter “Wendell”?
(a) Trimmed them.
(b) Ringed them with dirt.
(c) Removed them.
(d) Killed them.

7. What was yesterday, for Kim?
(a) Her anniversary.
(b) The anniversary of her father’s death.
(c) Her birthday.
(d) Her brother's birthday.

8. What does Wendell do for a living?
(a) He is a teacher.
(b) He is a school janitor.
(c) He is unemployed.
(d) He is a police offer.

9. Why did Gonzalo’s father make Gonzalo talk to everyone for him?
(a) Because his father was deaf.
(b) Because his father was mute.
(c) Because his father was shy.
(d) Because his father couldn’t speak English.

10. Who does Sam hire to garden for him?
(a) An older woman.
(b) A middle-aged man.
(c) Kim.
(d) A teenager.

11. What word does Sam use for the garden?
(a) Lovely.
(b) Eden.
(c) Paradise.
(d) Beautiful.

12. What does Ana see Kim doing the following day, after Ana dug something up?
(a) Dealing drugs.
(b) Digging up the object.
(c) Planting new items.
(d) Watering the plant.

13. What does Wendell do that evening, after being frightened?
(a) Speaks to Kim.
(b) Speaks to Kim's mother.
(c) Plants his own garden.
(d) Checks on the beans.

14. What happens when a man throws a bottle into the lot in the chapter “Sam”?
(a) Sam becomes angry.
(b) Someone is shot.
(c) Another man throws the bottle back into an apartment.
(d) Someone is killed.

15. What did Leona’s grandma lay on the graves of her physicians?
(a) Iron pills.
(b) Nutmeg.
(c) Goldenrod.
(d) Flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Ana move into the area?

2. What does Leona do that hurries things along with the city?

3. Who does Ana see burying something from her window?

4. What does Sam try to do in the world?

5. Whose picture is Kim staring at during the opening of the book?

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