Tomato Harvest

In line 24, why does the speaker say that he found "sweetness and pride" in the first tomato?

• He has worked hard to grow the tomatoes.
• He has planted a very sweet-tasting variety of tomato.
• Tomatoes are his favorite food to eat.
• He knows the next tomato will not taste as good.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

Stanza 4 is important to the poem because it shows-

• the way the speaker feels about his brothers
• the speaker's commitment to his garden
• the speaker's lack of experience with gardening
• the changes the speaker notices in his plants

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

Read these lines from the poem.
^{I felt beaten splashing out to see 
How little garden was left to me.}

The poet uses these lines to show that the speaker feels-

• defeated by the storm
• confused by the effect the rain had on the garden
• burdened by the amount of work required to manage a garden
• concerned that the storm has not ended

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

The poet organizes the poem by-

• explaining the reasons for each of the speaker's actions
• listing the growing phases of the speaker's tomato plants
• presenting the order of events in the speaker's experience
• noting the frequent changes in the speaker's emotions

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

Which line from the poem presents a problem that the speaker cannot control?

• To keep away the birds that hoped to eat
• Of pests for whom green leaves mean lunch
• Tomatoes in the strip of clay
• One night it rained so fiercely that

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4