Question #1: In line 24, why does the speaker say that he found "sweetness and pride" in the first tomato?
A. He has worked hard to grow the tomatoes
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Question 6: What can the reader tell about the narrator's feelings for Cowboy?
J. She was fond of him regardless of his appearance.
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Question 11: What is the central message the author presents in this selection?
C. Being dedicated can help one obtain a seemingly impossible goal
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Question 13: The speaker in the poem and the narrator of the selection are both-
A. Doubted by others
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Question 2: Stanza 4 is important to the poem because it shows-
G. The speaker's commitment to his garden
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Question 7: In paragraph 5, the author uses the phrase "shown the gate" to illustrate that the narrator was-
B. eliminated from competition
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Read the following sentence from the selection: The stinging memory of Becky's smirks made me determined to beat her.
From this sentence, the reader can conclude-
J. Becky's actions angered the narrator
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Question 14: In what way do the speaker in the poem and narrator of the selection differ?
G. The speaker is focused on one goal, while the narrator initially attempted different events.
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Question 3: Read these lines from the poem: I felt beaten splashing out to see. How little garden was left to me.
The poet uses these lines to show that the speaker feels-
A. Defeated by the storm
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Question 8: Why did the author include paragraphs 1 & 2 in the selection?
H. To explain why the narrator's father bought her a new horse
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Question 15: Both the poem and selection end with a feeling of-
C. accomplishment
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Question 4: The poet organizes the poem by-
H. Presenting the order of events in the speaker's experience
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Question 9: Which definition matches the word run as it is used in paragraph 10?
A. Definition 1
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Question 16: One difference between the speaker in the poem and narrator of the selection is that the speaker-
H. has to be patient in order to achieve his goal, while the narrator had to practice in order to achieve her goal
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Questions 5: Which line from the poem presents a problem that the speaker cannot control?
D. One night it rained so fiercely that
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When Cowboy and the narrator won the race, people were-