The Secret Garden Review 4

Which best describes the overall tone of the novel The Secret Garden?

• miserable

• bored

• spooky

• hopeful

Which is not an objective summary of a fiction text? In other words, which statement is an opinion, not a fact?

• Mrs. Lennox is the worst mother imaginable, and everybody knows it.

• Mary Lennox is described as a sallow, sickly, unpleasant girl.

• Mr. Craven, "a miserable hunchback," has been withdrawn and depressed for ten years.

• Dickon and Mary secretly begin bringing Colin out into the secret garden.

Read the passage:

A table in the center was set with a good, substantial breakfast. But she had always had a very small appetite, and she looked with something more than indifference at the first plate Martha set before her.

The definition of substantial is "large in amount." Which identifies the context clue that is most helpful in determining this definition?

• "But she had always had a very small appeitite.“

• "A table in the center“

• "good"

• "she looked with something more than indifference“

Review the character action.

Colin tells Mary that he is going to die after she doesn't visit him.

Which best explains Colin's motivation?

• He wants Mary to leave Misselthwaite Manor.

• He wants Mary to feel sorry for him.

• He wants Mary to call the doctor for him.

• He wants Mary to stop going to the secret garden.

Which identifies and explains the gift Susan Sowerby gives to Mary?

• Mrs. Sowerby gives Mary a spade so she can dig in the garden.

• Mrs. Sowerby gives Mary a packet of seeds to plant in the garden.

• Mrs. Sowerby gives Mary a piece of bacon between two slices of bread so she won't get hungry.

• Mrs. Sowerby gives Mary a jump rope to exercise and play with.

Which quotation from The Secret Garden contains hyperbole?

Hint: Hyperbole is an exaggeration that adds humor or drama to a text.

• Mary asked no more questions but waited in the darkness of her corner, keeping her eyes on the window.

• Out of a deep window she could see a great climbing stretch of land which seemed to have no trees on it.

• "My word! she's a plain little piece of goods!“

• "Mary! Dickon! I shall get well! And I shall live for ever and ever and ever!"