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In line 24, why does the speaker say that he found “sweetness and pride” in the first tomato?
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He has worked hard to grow the tomatoes.
He has planted a very sweet-tasting variety of tomato.
He knows the next tomato will not taste as good.
Tomatoes are his favorite food to eat.
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Stanza 4 is important to the poem because it shows —
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the speaker’s lack of experience with gardening
the changes the speaker notices in his plants
the way the speaker feels about his brothers
the speaker’s commitment to his garden
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In line 24, why does the speaker say that he found “sweetness and pride” in the first tomato?
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Stanza 4 is important to the poem because it shows —
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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—
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The poet organizes the poem by —
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Which line from the poem presents a problem that the speaker cannot control?
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What can the reader tell about the narrator’s feelings for Cowboy?
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In paragraph 5, the author uses the phrase “shown the gate” to illustrate that the narrator was—
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Why did the author include paragraphs 1 and 2 in the selection?
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Read the dictionary entry:
run \'rn\ n
1. an established route or course
2. a series of similar events
3. a continued effort
4. a flow of liquid
Which definition matches the word run as it is used in paragraph 10?
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When Cowboy and the narrator won the race, people were —
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What is the central message the author presents in this selection?
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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 that—
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The speaker in the poem and the narrator of the selection are both -
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In what way do the speaker in the poem and the narrator of the selection differ?
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Both the poem and the selection end with a feeling of -
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One difference between the speaker in the poem and the narrator of the selection is that the speaker -
