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    English 9 - QUIZ - Marigolds short story NAME: ___________________________________________________

    DIRECTIONS: Circle the BEST (most accurate) answer.



    1. Miss Lotties reaction when she finds Lizabeth destroying her flowers in the middle of the
    night is ______ .
    a) anger/bitterness b) sadness/defeat c) sympathy/compassion d) apathy/indifference

    2. Clues hint that which of the following describes the setting of the story Marigolds?
    a) small, rural American town during the Great Depression (1929-1930s)
    b) small, rural American town during slavery/Civil War times (1860s)
    c) poor section of New York City during the Great Depression (1929-1930s)
    d) small American town in the 1950s or early 1960s (before Civil Rights movement).

    3. Which describes the NARRATOR telling the story Marigolds?
    a) Lizabeths brother, Joey, now grown up b) Miss Lottie
    c) Lizabeth, a girl 14-going-on-15 d) Lizabeth, a grown woman of unknown age

    4. What type of point of view does the writer use to tell the story Marigolds?
    a) first-person point of view b) second-person point of view
    c) third-person limited point of view d) third-person omniscient point of view

    5. Who is the PROTAGONIST in the story Marigolds?
    a) Joey b) Lizabeth c) John Burke d) Miss Lottie

    6. Why does Lizabeth leave her house to go to Miss Lotties in the middle of the night?
    a) She has an argument with her younger brother, Joey.
    b) Joey is going to destroy Miss Lotties flowers, and Lizabeth intends to stop him.
    c) She is bored, cant sleep, and tired of hearing her parents arguing.
    d) She overhears her dad crying, which changes her perception of him & upsets her.

    7. What type of conflict is the MAIN conflict of the story -- considering the climax, resolution,
    and the overall epiphany Lizabeth experiences that changes her drastically?
    a) man vs. himself b) man vs. man c) man vs. nature d) man vs. society

    8. When you show compassion, its evidence that you have learned an awareness of ______ .
    a) the shortness of life b) suffering & hardships of others c) evil d) innocence of children

    9. According to Lizabeth, a person cannot have both compassion and ____.
    a) evil b) anger c) suffering d) innocence

    10. At the beginning of the story, Lizabeth says she often remembers the marigolds while also
    thinking of you, who will not come. Yet, she never fully explain who you is, and readers
    are left to wonder or draw their own conclusions. This literary device is an example of :
    a) epiphany b) ambiguity c) foreshadowing d) dramatic irony

    11. The overall story Marigolds is told in what order?
    a) chronologically (natural order of time events occur) b) foreshadowing
    c) flashback

    12. Which does the narrator feel throughout the story?
    a) apathy b) sympathy c) empathy d) apathy & sympathy e) all three

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