Marigolds Monday

The American Dream was a reality for the narrator.

Life was prosperous and good.

• True

• False

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Match definition: Depression-Era

• a feeling of guilt

• in the 1930's, a time of economic crisis

• the quality or condition of being sterile

• a state of being extremely dirty and unpleasant especially as a result of poverty or neglect

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Match definition: squalor

• an event or occurrence

• the endurance of pain or hardship without a display of feelings and without complaint

• a person who is not accepted by other people

• a state of being extremely dirty and unpleasant especially as a result of poverty or neglect

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The emotion Lizabeth feels when she hears her father cry is...

• fear

• embarassment

• disgust

• guilt

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The character, John Burke sits in a chair all day because he...

• is ill and tired

• is lazy

• has a mental disability

• wants Miss Lottie to do all of the work

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A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things using "like" or "as." Which example(s) from the text is a simile?

• “Poverty was the cage in which we were all trapped, and our hatred of it was still the vague, undirected restlessness of the zoo-bred flamingo who knows that nature has created him to fly free.”

• "I feel again the chaotic emotions of adolescence,

  illusive as smoke, yet as real as the potted geranium before me now."

• "Old fears have a way of clinging like cobwebs."

• "They interfered with the perfect ugliness of the place; they were too beautiful; they said too much that we could not understand; they did not make sense."

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Personification is when human characteristics are given to something nonhuman in literary texts. Which of the following choices is an example of personification?

• "The room was too crowded with fear to allow me to sleep"

• "For some perverse reason, we children hated those

  marigolds."

• "The child in me sulked and said it was all in fun, but the woman in me flinched at the thought of the malicious attack that I had led."

• "When I think of the home town of my youth, all that I seem to remember is dust..."

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Lizabeth was very _________________, like the rest of her community, and resented Miss Lottie’s hope for better days ahead.

• rich

• impoverished

• well-off

• arid

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The most difficult inner conflict Lizabeth faces is between...

• Being frightened of Miss Lottie and feeling sorry for her

• Having feelings like a child and feelings like an adult

• Liking the marigolds and wanting to destroy them

• Hating Miss Lottie and being afraid of her

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What do the marigold flowers represent in the short story by Eugenia Collier?

• Ceremonial: Dia de los Muertos

• Good fortune and extraordinary wealth

• Hope: a small patch of beauty in an otherwise harsh world

• Religious Tribute: "Mary's Gold"

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