Vocabulary:
Choose the right word:
In the Secret Garden, a person who is sick or enfeebled all the time is called an
(a) patient (b) invalid (c) faker (d) hermit
invalid
“The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. I am going to make the scientific experiment of trying to get some and put it in myself and make it push and draw me and make me strong. I don't know how to do it but I think that if you keep thinking about it and calling it, perhaps it will come.”
Colin
What point of view is The Secret Garden written from?
First person POV
Second person POV
Third person POV
3 - 3rd person POV
"I'm keepin' secrets all th' time," he said. "If I couldn't keep secrets from th' other lads, secrets about foxes' cubs, an' birds' nests, an' wild things' holes, there'd be naught safe on th' moor. Aye, I can keep secrets."
Dickon
Describe Mary’s rapport with Colin:
They both like each other, but Colin can push Mary to the limits of friendship by his selfishness, and she is not afraid of showing it.
They both dislike each other intensely.
They both enjoy each other’s company with no conflict.
They both like each other, but when Colin wants to have his own way or to be morbid and depressed, Mary just lets him.
1 - They both like each other, but Colin can push Mary to the limits of friendship by his selfishness, and she is not afraid of showing it.
The word "condescended" means to
(a) come down to someone's level (b) be quiet (c) ignore (d) be kind to
(a) come down to someone's level
“Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way – or always to have it.”
Susan Sowerby
The plague at the beginning of the novel was called the
The Bubonic Plague
The Cholera
Malaria
Typhoid
The Cholera
“In the robin's nest there were Eggs and the robin's mate sat upon them keeping them warm with her feathery little breast and careful wings. At first she was very nervous and the robin himself was indignantly watchful. Even Dickon did not go near the close-grown corner in those days, but waited until by the quiet working of some mysterious spell he seemed to have conveyed to the soul of the little pair that in the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves—nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them—the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs.”
Narrator
What is Colin “sick” with?
A disease that causes one to grow a lump on one’s back
The cholera
Negativity/Hypochondria (state of being a hypochondriac)
He isn’t sick: he is just complaining because he likes when people stare at him and whisper about his eventual death.
3 - Negativity/Hypochondria
A Rajah is a
(a) servant (b) prince (c) elephant-groomer (d) priest
(b) prince
“"Would you make friends with me?" she said to the robin just as if she was speaking to a person. "Would you?"
Mary
Martha is the first person who helps bring Mary to her senses by NOT behaving like a “well-trained fine young lady’s maid” who is subservient and respectful. Mary is used to having her Ayah do things she learned she must do on her own at Misselthwaite, such as ________________________________________ her own ______________________, and picking up things she let _________________.
putting on her own shoes and stockings (any clothing item would be fine)
fall, drop
"Take me into the garden, my boy," he said at last. "And tell me all about it."
Mr. Craven
Why does Mr. Craven keep the garden a secret?
Because the garden was his wife’s and his happy place, and she is dead, so it is like a cemetery to him.
Because he is very depressed about the condition of the dead garden and is embarrassed about it.
Because he doesn’t want to meet the ghost of his dead wife there.
1 - Because the garden was his wife’s and his happy place, and she is dead, so it is like a cemetery to him.
Rapturous means
(a) depressed (b) disappointed (c) overjoyed (d) happy
(c) overjoyed
“"Hasn't tha' got good sense?" she said once, when Mary had stood waiting for her to put on her gloves for her. "Our Susan Ann is twice as sharp as thee an' she's only four year' old. Sometimes tha' looks fair soft in th' head."
Martha
Mary starts to step outside of her own selfish little world when she starts to hear about _________________, because “she had never been interested in anyone but _______________________________, and it was the dawning of a healthy sentiment.”
Dickon
herself
"That I do, lad," she answered. "I never knowed it by that name but what does th' name matter? I warrant they call it a different name i' France an' a different one i' Germany. Th' same thing as set th' seeds swellin' an' th' sun shinin' made thee a well lad an' it's th' Good Thing. It isn't like us poor fools as think it matters if us is called out of our names. Th' Big Good Thing doesn't stop to worrit, bless thee. It goes on makin' worlds by th' million—worlds like us. Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it—an' call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into th' garden."
Mrs. Sowerby
What does Colin keep hidden behind a curtain? His _____________________________.
What might this be similar to?
Mr. Craven’s hiding the key to the Secret Garden
The robin’s hiding his nest from the children
1 - Mr. Craven’s hiding the key to the Secret Garden
Hysterical means
(a) calm (b) happy (c) emotionally out of control
(d) angry
(d) emotionally out of control
"Tha' an' me are a good bit alike," he said. "We was wove out of th' same cloth. We're neither of us good lookin' an' we're both of us as sour as we look. We've got the same nasty tempers, both of us, I'll warrant."
Ben Weatherstaff
What is Mr. Craven’s conflict?
He doesn’t have enough money to spend to buy everything he wants.
He thinks he is too good a father to spend time with such a brat as his son is being.
He chooses to dwell in the gloom of feeling deprived of his wife and burdened with an invalid child.
He is too shy to talk to anyone about his problems
3 - He chooses to dwell in the gloom of feeling deprived of his wife and burdened with an invalid child.
"How dost tha' like thyself?"
Mrs. Sowerby or Martha, repeating what Mrs. Sowerby had said,
What do you think the Magic in the novel really is?
The miracle of plants coming to life.
The miracle of a person getting better and stronger after exercise and nutrition
The miracle of getting happier after being open to positive thinking
The miracle of discovering and embracing the wonder and awesomeness in all of the above.
4 - The miracle of discovering and embracing the wonder and awesomeness in all of the above.