Marigolds

Who was the narrator of the story?

• Lizabeth

• Joey

• Paul

• Eliza

Who is John Burke?

• Miss Lottie's brother

• Miss Lottie's son

• Miss Lottie's husband

• Miss Lottie's friend

"Joy and rage and wild animal gladness and shame become tangled together in the multicolored skein of fourteen-going-on-fifteen as I recall that devastating moment when I was suddenly more woman than child, years ago in Miss

Lottie’s yard."—What do you think the theme is based on the evidence provided?

• The theme of the story is growing up.

• The theme of the story is make smart choices.

• The theme of the story is to always apologize.

• The theme of the story is childhood.

This metaphor compares what two things?

"I suppose that futile waiting was the sorrowful background music of our impoverished little community when I was young. "

• Marigolds and Miss Lottie's house

• Dust and the marigolds

• Sad background music and the poor community

What motivates the children to annoy Miss Lottie?

• Fear and fun

• Fear and terror

• Fun and excitement

• Fun and retribution

"I said before that we children were not consciously aware of how thick were the bars of our cage. I wonder now, though, whether we were not more aware of it than I thought. Perhaps we had some dim notion of what we were, and how little chance we had of being anything else. Otherwise, why would we have been so preoccupied with

destruction?"

The phrase "the bars of our cage" refers to:

• The poverty the children live in, but don't notice due to their age.

• The fear the children have after Miss Lottie calls for John Burke.

• The punishment they receive after annoying Miss Lottie.

In the lines "I did not join the merriment when the kids gathered again under the oak in our bare yard. Suddenly I was ashamed, and I did not like being ashamed. 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. The mood lasted all afternoon."

—Identify the conflicting feelings Lizabeth is experiencing after throwing stones at the marigolds.

• The child in her is lonely, and the woman in her feels sad for Miss Lottie.

• The woman in her feels ashamed, and the child in her is sad because it was only for fun.

What motivates Lizabeth to wake Joey?

• She is afraid and wanted some company.

• She heard her mother's hum, and wanted her brother it hear it too.

• She wanted him to help her destroy Miss Lottie's flowers.

• He was running late and she needed to help her mother at work.

Identify the feelings that are causing Lizabeth to return to Miss Lottie.

• The emotions she felt had nothing to do with her return to Miss Lottie's.

• The emotions she had that were building up over summer, confusion, bewilderment, hopelessness.

• She was angry after Miss Lottie told her parents about what she did to the marigolds.

After destroying the flowers, what does Lizabeth's reaction to Miss Lottie reveal about her?

• She has realized that what she has done was wrong, and childish. Miss Lottie after all is just a woman trying to make the world a bit more beautiful. This was her last act of childhood, she is now a woman.

• She has realized that what she has done was too easy, and that Miss Lottie was expecting her. She learns that she wasn't smarter than Miss Lottie, like she thought,

• She has realized that what she has done was childish.