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WorksheetsThe Garden of Happiness
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 18mins
Our car _____ on the ice, but luckily, we were able to stop safely.
mural
skidded
haze
inhaled
I ____ deeply when my mother took a freshly baked loaf of bread from the oven.
haze
inhaled
venture
lavender
The color ____ is a light shade of purple.
mural
yellow
red
lavender
The ____ that filled the sky made it hard to see the mountains.
haze
lavender
mural
burrows
In our city, each school painted a _____ on the side of a tall building.
lavender
skidded
mural
inhaled
Most of our story takes place in _____
an empty lot
a garage
an apartment building
Marisol's home
Neighbors on Marisol's block clear an empty lot so they can ____.
meet there
have a party
have a street festival
plant a garden
Why can't Marisol have a garden plot like the other people have?
All the land is divided up.
She does not know what to plant.
Teenagers are painting a mural.
She didn't help clean up the empty lot.
How does Marisol feel when she finds a patch of soil for her garden?
disappointed because it is so small
very happy to have a little space for herself
annoyed because she cannot have a larger plot
no longer interested in having a garden
What problem does Marisol have with her garden?
She has to learn how to plant things.
She is working with a very small patch of soil.
She needs to find something to plant.
She can't find the time to look after her garden.
What problem does Marisol share with the teenagers?
None of them knew exactly what to do with their project.
No one had money to buy what they needed for their projects
None of them liked planting gardens.
They mostly wanted to play and not work.
To solve her problem, Marisol _____
asks Mrs. Rodriguez for more space
asks Mr. Castro for one of his seedlings
decides that the space is too small
take a big flat seed from the pigeons
Marisol often sees Mr. Ortiz in his plot, resting in a chair. In this selection, plot means ____.
the main events in a story
a small piece of land in a cemetery
a small area planted with vegetables
a secret plan to accomplish something
For a long time, Marisol does not know _____.
what the other neighbors planted
what kind of seed she has planted
how she will water her plant
if she is taking care of her plant the right way
What does Marisol learn about sunflowers?
Sunflowers grow in many places around the world.
Sunflowers are considered to be weeds.
The sunflower seeds taste good.
Sunflowers grow only in Mexico.
How does the sunflower affect the neighborhood?
It attracts bees.
It makes people happy.
Its seeds spread everywhere.
People keep stealing its seeds.
Marisol is sad toward the end of the selection because _____.
she falls down in the garden and is hurt
her sunflower begins to wither and die
her friends never come back to the garden
she doesn't have beans or tomatoes to eat anymore
Why is the garden called The Garden of Happiness?
It makes everyone happy to grow and raise vegetbles there.
No one can be sad in such a pretty place.
It is a good name for an empty lot.
Everyone thinks that a happy garden name will make the vegatbles grow well.
