Incident in a Rose Garden

Death is not welcome in the garden because

• The gardener has died

• The master is afraid of Death

• It is killing the roses

• Death is not a friend

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.K.5

CCSS.RL.3.4

The gardener fears that Death has come for him because

• He is old.

• He is ill.

• He has seen all that he wants to see

• He dreamed that he would die

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The conflict is resolved when

• The master asks Death to leave the garden

• Death admits that he has taken the master’s father

• Death reveals that he has come for the master

• Death and the master become good friends

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CCSS.RL.K.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.10

In “Incident in a Rose Garden,” the conflict is that

• Something is killing the roses

• Death has come for someone

• The gardener has quit

• A stranger appears in the garden

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

Who is the speaker in “Incident in a Rose Garden”?

• Donald Justice

• Death

• The Master

• The Gardener

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

A brief summary for "Incident in a Rose Garden" is

• A gardener believes that "Death" has come for him when it has really come for his employer

• Two men think that the grim reaper is after them

• Death has come for an old man who still wants to "see California". He tells his master about this and then death goes after him instead

• None of the above

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.2.4

The conflict in "Incident in a Rose Garden" is

• Man vs. man

• Man vs. society

• Man vs. unknown

• Man vs. himself

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.K.5

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

At the end of the poem, Death's hand being referred to as "a cage of bone" suggests that

• The hand is deformed.

• The hand is old.

• He wants to be friends with the man who owns the garden.

• The hand may trap the person who shakes it.

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of the following is the least traditional depiction of death?

• “Thin as a scythe he stood there.”

• “Seeing his mouth stood open/ Big it was, with white teeth”

• “And there Death stood in the garden,/ Dressed like a Spanish waiter.”

• “Death grinned, and his eyes lit up/ with the pale glow…”

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"He had his black coat on/Black gloves, a broad black hat..." (8-9). These lines contain examples of which two literary sound devices?

• Alliteration and rhyme

• Repetition and rhyme

• Repetition and alliteration

• None of the above

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.5