Marigolds CFU

Which excerpt best describes the way growing up in poverty affected Lizabeth?

• "Perhaps we had some dim notion of what we were, and how the little chance we had of being anything else. Otherwise, why would we have been so preoccupied with destruction"?

• "The world had lost its boundary lines...Everything was suddenly out of tune, like a broken accordion. Where did I fit into the crazy picture"?

• "The promise of adventure awoke him. Going out now? Where to, Lizabeth? What you going to do"?

• "Of course I could not express the things the things that I knew about Miss Lottie as I stood there awkward and ashamed."

How does overhearing the conversation between her father and mother affect Lizabeth?

• Lizabeth becomes angry at her father

• Lizabeth becomes confused and afraid

• Lizabeth regrets the way she has treated Miss Lottie

• Lizabeth hopes that the people in her community will help her family

What do the marigolds represent?

• age and getting older

• achievement and success

• hope and beauty in the world

• nature and humans cooperating

Why does Lizabeth destroy the marigolds?

• because of Miss Lottie's disrespect toward her mother and father

• because of Miss Lottie's wealth as compared to the poverty in the community

• because they are the only beautiful thing in the midst of the community's poverty

• because the other kids in the community dared her to do it, and it helped her status among the other children

The narrator says that the destruction of Miss Lottie's marigolds marks the end of

• Miss Lottie's life

• summer vacation for the children

• the family's poverty

• Lizabeth's childhood

One theme of the story is that everyone must deal with hardships in life. What does she mean then by the last line in the story, "And I too have planted marigolds"?

• Now Lizabeth understands that Miss Lottie was trying to find some way to endure the reality of her life and not lose hope

• By planting marigolds, Miss Lottie showed the rest of the town that she was better than them.

• Lizabeth has learned to plant flowers to help her relax when life gets too challenging

• Lizabeth like Miss Lottie, has had to cope with hard times by doing something that has no real value except maybe it will make others envy her.