
Seedfolks (Paul Fleischman), story # 11: Maricela
Quiz by Mary Stormon-Flynn
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What is the writer's name?
Maricela announces that she is "with child." This means that she is ...
Maricela is not from this country.
Maricela is from the country of
Maricela and three other pregnant teens from high school plant this crop:
It is this part of summer when Maricela plants radishes.
The name of the lady in charge of the G.E.D. program for Maricela and three other girls is ...
At the beginning of the story, Maricela does not want her baby.
Miss Fleck was a third grade teacher. A quote from the book is. "She treated the whole world like her ________."
After a thunderstorm, there is a _________. This means that there was no electricity in many areas of the neighborhood.
Maricela has a conversation with Leona. Leona says that nature "ran on sunlight and ___."
Match each word with its synonym.
After talking to Leona, Maricela realizes that her body is a part of Mother N_________
Leona tells Maricela that it is a / an________ for Maricela to be pregnant. (She should be proud.)
By the end of the story, Maricela is ____________________ her baby.
Put the events in order from happening first to third.
Leona gives Maricela and the other pregnant girls _____ to make into tea.
Leona says to Maricela after the thunderstorm: "Whole city shuts _____, but the garden just keeps ______." (page 56, paragraph 2)