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According to the narrator, how did Mary feel about the scent of the damp earth of the garden?
a) She wanted to skip over it.
b) She found it disgusting.
c) She liked it very much.
d) She was scared by it.

Which of the following items were tucked into the corners of the walled garden?
a) grass paths
b) stone seats
c) brown grass
d) stone windows

What specific description of the garden made it look mysterious?
a) the rugged walls of crumbing stone
b) the rose bushes that look like tiny trees
c) the web of rose branches between the trees
d) the moss covered stone benches in the corners

What are the LITTLE PALE GREEN POINTS (line 52) that Mary discovers coming out of the soil?
a) new spring plants
b) small wall stones
c) young worms
d) rose buds

HE CHIRPED A GOOD DEAL AND HAD A VERY BUSY AIR, AS IF HE WERE SHOWING HER THINGS. (lines 38-39) In the quotation, the punctuation that occurs at the end of the phrase HAD A VERY BUSY AIR, is called
a) period
b) comma
c) semicolon
d) parenthesis

Which of the following words best describes the character quality that Mary shows when she says IS IT ALL A QUITE DEAD GARDEN? I WISH IT WASN'T. ? (line 29)
a) impoliteness
b) sensitivity
c) partience
d) cruelty

In which season does Mary Lennox discover this forgotten garden?
a) spring
b) winter
c) autumn
d) summer

How did Mary know that the LEAFLESS STEMS covering the garden walls were roses?
a) She looked up the plant in a flower book.
b) Ben Weatherstaff pointed out the roses.
c) Only roses will grow in that garden.
d) Mary had seen many roses in India.

In lines 6 and 7, the narrator describes the branches of the standard roses in the garden as LITTLE TREES, and example of a figure of speech known as
a) simile
b) hyperbole
c) alliteration
d) onomatopoeia

Which of the following words best describes the mood of this passage?
a) peaceful
b) boring
c) angry
d) lazy

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