"Tomato Harvest"

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

• A) He has worked hard to grow the tomatoes.

• B) He has planted a very sweet-tasting variety of tomato.

• C) Tomatoes are his favorite food to eat.

• D) He knows the next tomato will not taste as good.

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CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

Stanza 4 is important to the poem because it shows --

• F) the way the speaker feels about his brothers

• G) the speaker's commitment to his garden

• H) the speaker's lack of experience

• J) the changes the speaker notices in his plants

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CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.9

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

• A) defeated by the storm

• G) confused by the effect the rain had on the garden

• C) burdened by the amount of work required to manage a garden

• D) concerned that the storm has not ended

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

The poet organizes the poem by --

• F) explaining the reasons for each of the speaker's actions

• G) listing the growing phases of the speaker's tomato plants

• H) presenting the order of events in the speaker's experience

• J) noting the frequent changes in the speaker's emotions

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• A) To keep away the birds that hoped to eat

• B) Of pests for whom green leaves mean lunch

• C) Tomatoes in the strip of clay

• D) One night it rained so fiercely that

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.5.4