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Vocabulary
Exposition
Character
Setting
Plot
100
useless, hopeless
What is futile?
100
She wrote Marigolds.
Who is Eugenia Collier?
100
Lizabeth
What is the main character's name?
100
the state in which the story took place
What is Maryland?
100
It was his idea to go to Mrs. Lottie"s house.
Who is Joey?
200

indifference to pleasure or pain; not showing emotion

What is "stoicism"

200

They were sent to relatives

What is "the babies"?

200
fourteen-going-on-fifteen
What is age of Lizabeth?
200
The month the story took place.
What is September?
200
it was used to cut off the head of a flower
What is a stone?
300

in a profoundly moving manner

What is "poignantly"?

300
Lizabeth's fathers job
What is unemployed?
300
Miss Lottie
What is the elderly neighbor's name?
300
The great oak
What is where the children played?
300
He sobbed, loudly and painfully in the dark night
Who was lizabeth's father?
400
poor, poverty-stricken
What is "impoverished"?
400
The story was set right after this happened in the United States.
What was the Great Depression?
400
Chanted, "Old witch, fell in a ditch"
Who is lizabeth?
400
He sat in the rocking chair
Who was Mrs. Lottie's son, John Burke?
400
there was no rage in her face
Who was Miss Lottie when she found Lizabeth destroying the marigolds?
500

a false show of courage

What is "bravado"?

500

The setting of the story (time and place)

What is a shantytown during The Great Depression?

500

John Burke

Who is Miss Lottie's son?

500
"They interfered with the perfect ugliness of the place"
What were the marigolds?
500
Lizabeth lost this
What was her innocence?