Book Basics
Where does the story Seedfolk take place?
What is Cleveland, Ohio
Why does Kim plant lima beans in the vacant lot?
What is she wants to show her father that she is his daughter and make him proud.
Why does Wendell hate the phone?
What is because it always brings him bad news.
How did Leona “make herself real” to the people at the City Health Department?
What is she took a bag of trash from the vacant lot to the health department.
What do Virgil and his father plant in the garden and what do they hope to do with it?
What is Virgil and his father plant baby lettuce that they plan to sell to fancy restaurants.
What does Curtis decide to grow in the garden? Why?
What is Curtis decides to grow tomatoes because he wants to win Lateesha back and they are her favorite.
What problem does Maricela face?
What is being pregnant and 16.
“It’s like a cheap hotel- you stay until you’ve got enough money to leave.” What type of figurative language is this statement?
What is a simile
This is a disease that destroys plants
What is blight
Why does Florence say that the people who started the garden are Seedfolks?
What is she calls them Seedfolks because they are the first people to plant in the garden, meaning they have started something important.
What does Ana suspect Kim is doing when she sees her in the vacant lot?
What is Ana suspects Kim is burying drugs, money, or guns in the vacant lot.
Why does Wendell become involved in the garden?
What is because Ana asks him to water Kim’s plants.
What does Sam mean when he says that he likes to “sew up rips in the neighborhood?”
What is he means that he likes to bring people together.
What does Virgil learn about grown-ups?
What is grown-ups make mistakes too, just like kids do.
What happens to Curtis’ tomatoes when they begin to get ripe?
What is people begin stealing the tomatoes.
Why is Maricela involved in the garden?
What is that she is a part of a group of pregnant teens and the leader thinks it will help her to take care of something living before her baby comes.
When Virgil says “It was like a baby, always crying for its milk.” What type of figurative language is being used?
What is a simile
This is being killed by electricity.
What is electrocuted
What the main purpose of Amir’s story?
What is to show how the garden brought the community together
How does Ana feel when she learns what Kim has really buried in the vacant lot?
What is Ana feels guilty when she digs up Kim’s plants.
How does Gonzalo get involved in the garden?
What is that his Tío Juan wants to plant.
How does Leona help Maricela?
What is Leona talks to Maricela and helps her to see that she is part of a natural cycle of life and should not be ashamed.
What happened to Sae Young after she came to America? How did it affect her?
What is her husband died, and then she was beaten and robbed. It made her afraid to go outside anymore.
What deal does Curtis make with Royce?
What is he will protect the tomatoes in exchange for food.
What does Amir think the garden’s greatest benefit to the community is?
What is Amir says that the garden’s greatest benefit is to allow people to get to know their neighbors.
"Nobody talk to me that day. But just to be near people, nice people, feel good, like next to fire in winter. Very hot and humid in July. Most people come early in evening, after work, when air is cool."
Sae Young helps to describe the setting by
What is including information about the weather.
This is a spout or faucet that gives water
What is a spigot
“A year ago, she’d claimed she’d gotten the wrong change in my store. She’d called me...a dirty foreigner. Now that we were so friendly...I dared to remind her of this. Her eyes became huge and she apologized over and over again. She kept saying ‘Back then, I didn’t know it was you...’ ”
What is a theme that is best supported by this quote?
What is always treat others kindly because you do not know when and where your paths will cross again.
"This has always been a working-class neighborhood. It’s like a cheap hotel- you stay until you’ve got enough money to leave....Now I see families from Mexico and Cambodia and countries I don’t know, twelve people sometimes in one apartment."
From the passage, you can infer that Ana is-
What is poor.
How does the garden help Tío Juan?
What is Tío Juan turns from being like a baby back into a man who knows how to do something.
This is acting as if you are doing something wrong
What is suspicious
How does Sae Young change after becoming part of the garden?
What is Sae Young wasn’t afraid to be around people anymore.
What is Nora’s job?
What is Mr. Myles' nurse.
What lesson does Amir learn from the garden?
What is that Amir learns that we should not judge people based on their race or the country they are from.
“Sound of people working almost like conversation, all around.”
This quote is an example of what type of imagery?
What is sound imagery.
This is very strong winds
What are gales.
This is a substance burned for perfume
What is incense
A table for offering gifts to ancestors is what?
What is an altar
This is a small pointed shovel used for gardening.
What is a trowel
This is standing unsteadily, tipping over.
What is teetered
"That lettuce was like having a new baby in the family. And I was like its mother. I watered it in the morning if my father was still out driving...The minute it came up, it started to wilt. It was like a baby, always crying for its milk. I got sick of hauling bottles of water in our shopping cart, like I was some old lady. Then the heat came. The leaves shriveled up. Some turned yellow. The lettuce was dying."
When the heat causes the lettuce to shrivel and turn yellow, this is an example of which type of conflict?
What is man vs. nature
How does the garden help Mr. Myles?
What is Mr. Myles becomes interested in life again.
"In India, we have many vast cities, just as in America. There too, you are one among millions. But there at least you know your neighbors. Here, one cannot say that. The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they’re known to be friends. Here, you have a million crabs living in a million crevices."
What contrast does Amir make between living in India and living in America?
What is that in India, you know your neighbors, but in America you don’t.
“But just to be near people, nice people, feel good, like next to fire in winter.”
This statement is an example of which type of figurative language?
What is simile
This is communicating with motions instead of speech
What is pantomime
This is to shrivel and die, needing water
What is to wilt
This is when people give up something in order to reach an agreement
What is a compromise
This is cracks or openings
What is crevices
This is a sudden feeling of emotion
What is a tremolo
This is behaving the way that is expected
What is decorum
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What is cheese