Too Many Pumpkins

Why does Rebecca Estelle hate pumpkins?

• She cannot stand the way pumpkins taste.

• When she was little she only had pumpkins to eat for a month because money was scarce.

• When she was little an enormous pumpkin rolled from a truck and smashed her.

• Their vines take over the whole yard and wrap around the porch, garden, and trees.

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What time did the pumpkin truck pass by Rebecca’s home each year?

• springtime

• summertime

• autumn

• harvesttime

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What was Rebecca’s plan to get rid of the new pumpkin vines?

• She will not water them or tend them.

• She will call the pumpkin truck.

• She will let Esmerelda turn the vines into cat beds.

• She will spray poison on all of the vines.

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Why wasn’t Rebecca using her front door?

• The pumpkin vines had blocked her front door.

• The enormous pumpkin fell from the truck and damaged her door.

• She didn’t want to see the pumpkin vines.

• She only used the backdoor in order to attend to her vegetable garden.

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How did Rebecca first react when she found the pumpkins growing everywhere?

• She laughed.

• She ran away.

• She started picking.

• She cried.

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What was Rebecca’s first plan to do with the wheelbarrow of pumpkins?

• She planned to smash them.

• She planned to give them away.

• She planned to bury them.

• She planned to call the pumpkin truck to come get them.

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The wheelbarrow was too tiring, so Rebecca decides it will be easier to deliver them if...

• ...people will come pick them up.

• ...the pumpkin truck will come get them.

• ...they are carved.

• ...she bakes them into pies.

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Rebecca was too tired to deliver the pumpkin dishes. What does she decide to do?

• She decides to get people to come there to get the pies, cookies, and breads.

• She decides to let Esmerelda share them with her.

• She decides to freeze them for next year.

• She decides to eat them all herself.

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How did Rebecca attract people to her home?

• She sets the pies outside so everyone can smell them.

• She sets out flyers in their mailboxes.

• She carved many pumpkins and lit them with candles.

• She rings the dinner bell loudly for all to hear.

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What was the only pumpkin item Rebecca kept?

• She kept one pumpkin pie for later.

• She kept a handful of seeds.

• She kept one jack-o-lantern to enjoy.

• She kept a dozen muffins for breakfast.

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