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1
This event is what marked Lizbeth's coming of age experience:
Seeing her dad cry
Beheading the marigolds
Getting whipped by Ms. Lottie
Kissing the Harris boys
2
"a brilliant splash of sunny yellow against the dust" is an example of
Connotation
Juxtaposition
Flashback
Grit
3
"A little cloud of dust follow our thin legs and bare feet as we tramped over the barren land"
Is juxtaposition
Symbolism
Flashback
Imagery
4
The term setting refers to:
Both time & place
Place
Space
Time
5
You use subjunctive mood to express
A doubt
A possibility
All of these express subjunctive mood
A wish
6
The protagonist in "Marigolds" is
John Burke
Lizbeth
Miss Lottie
Joey
7
The time period was:
Civil Rights Movement
The Great Depression
The roaring 20's
The war on drugs
8
Which of the following words or phrases are signal words for the literary device of flashback?
I remember
All of the these are flashback signal words
As I recall
When I think back
9
"If I were born in the 1800's" is written in
Subjunctive mood
Proper mood
Informal mood
Third person mood
10
What is the vocabulary term for the following: a run-down town in which most people are poor
Prospect
Squalor
Shantytown
Shack
11
What vocabulary term means "ungenerous, wary"?
Inexplicable
Ostensibly
Chary
Exuberance
12
"Beheading" is an example of
Dialogue
Russian terroists
Imagery
Diction
13
Lizbeth referred to "Coming of Age as
When you grow up
Emotional roller coaster
The end of innocence
When you have your first kiss
14
The setting of "Marigolds is
Maryland
The South
School
On a farm
15
"Miss Lottie seemed to be at least a hundred years old" is an example of:
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Hyperbole
16
The definition "not being active" is referred to as
Grit
Chary
Idleness
Whittled
17
Clues that indicate Lizbeth's economical status are:
Dad is out of work
All of these are clue examples
Shantytown
Hand me downs
18
The president at the time this story occurs was:
Theodore Roosevelt
John F Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Roosevelt
19
"Everything was suddenly out of tune, like a broken accordion" is an example of:
Oxymoron
Simile
Imagery
Metaphor
20
Why did the children hate the marigolds?
Their beauty made no sense in the surrounding ugliness
They were poisonous
They emitted an offensive odor
Miss Lottie planted them
21
Static characters:
Change
Stay the same
Receive electrical shocks
Have friction in their lives
22
Dynamic characters:
Change
Explode
Stay the same
Receive all the action
23
What did the children do for fun?
Antagonize Miss Lottie and John Burke
Go fishing
Roll each other around in a tire
The children did all of these
24
Memory is an abstract painting is an example of:
Personification
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Simile
25
Which of the following is uncommon historically and shows that roles may have been reversed?
Men unemployed
Both of these
Neither of these
Women being the bread earners
26
"Ain't no more locusts there. Y'all got 'em all while they was still green." Is an example of:
Exploits
Imagery
Diction
Contrast
27
Miss Lottie's house was:
The most ramshackle of all the ramshackle homes
The biggest of all the ramshackle homes
The smallest of all the ramshackle homes
The most beautiful of all the ramshackle homes
28
A popular phrase during the era was:
All of these
Prosperity is just around the corner
"White folks"
The promise of the American Dream
29
Subjunctive mood uses the term
Were
Are
Is
Was
30
"Zing" is an example of:
Hyperbole
Personification
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
