Marigolds Collier

What can you infer about the children and Miss Lottie?

• The children love to spend time with Miss Lottie.

• The children like to bother or annoy Miss Lottie.

• The children are afraid of Miss Lottie because she is a witch.

• The children go to Miss Lottie's to hear stories from long ago.

What motivates the children to annoy Miss Lottie?

• Fear and fun

• Fear and terror

• Fun and excitement

• Fun and retribution

What does the phrase "the bars of our cage" represent in the children's lives?

• 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.

What are 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? (351-361)

• 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.

What do Miss Lottie's marigolds symbolize to the narrator?

• They symbolize the sadness in the world.

• They symbolize the beauty and joy that the world can have.

• They symbolize the beauty in every woman's life.

• They symbolize the struggles of childhood.

What does the narrator mean when she says that she has planted marigolds?

• She has helped people discover their adulthood.

• She has planed marigold in her own garden.

• She has found the beauty in the ugly parts of the world.

• She has written a story about planting marigolds in harsh conditions.

Who was the narrator of the story?

• Lizbeth

• Joey

• Paul

• Eliza