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WorksheetsMarigolds Monday
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 12mins
The American Dream was a reality for the narrator.
Life was prosperous and good.
True
False
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
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
The emotion Lizabeth feels when she hears her father cry is...
fear
embarassment
disgust
guilt
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
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."
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..."
Lizabeth was very _________________, like the rest of her community, and resented Miss Lottie’s hope for better days ahead.
rich
impoverished
well-off
arid
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
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"
Believing that hope was __________________, Lizabeth set out to destroy Miss Lottie’s hope at 4 AM.
Arid
Necessary
Stoicism
Futile
Why is it that the marigolds "don't make sense"?
They speak a language the narrator doesn't understand.
They look pretty, but they smell awful!
They are beautiful, but everything around them is ugly.
They are ugly, but Miss Lottie still loves them dearly.
"Zing — Joey sent a pebble into the blooms, and another marigold was beheaded."
What literary device is used in this sentence?
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Alliteration
