Seedfolks Quizzes

Seedfolks Quiz 1

1 Why does Kim plant lima beans in a vacant lot?
To start a community garden on Gibb Street

To make sure her family has enough food to eat

To form a connection with her deceased father, who was a farmer

To ease the suspicions of her neighbor Ana
2 What was the occupation of Kim's father in Vietnam?
Farmer

Schoolteacher

Journalist

Soldier
3 What enables Kim's beans to survive the cold?
The circles drawn by Wendell

The fertilizer applied by Ana

The sun reflected from a refrigerator

The help of Kim's schoolteacher
4 Why does Ana compare Gibb Street to a cheap hotel?
Because the area is known for its bad restaurants

Because Gibb Street is famous for gambling

Because there are a lot of hotels in the area

Because people only stay until they have enough money to leave
5 Why does Ana dig up Kim's beans?
Because she hates beans

Because she knows that Kim planted them wrong

Because she does not want anything growing in the lot

Because she is suspicious that Kim buried something illicit
6 Why does Ana call Wendell?
To tell him his wife died

To organize an event at the garden

Because Kim's plants are dying

To ask him to buy her groceries
7 Why does Wendell draw a circle around the bean plant?
To retain water

To fend off the rats

To kill the insects

To harm Kim's beans
8 Why do the gardeners begin to put fences around their plots?
To protect their business plans from failure

To make sure their plants do not cross-contaminate

To protect their plants from thieves and crazy people

To protect their plants from animals
9 What do fences symbolize in Seedfolks?
Policing

Community building

Anti-Black racism

Social division and distrust of neighbors
10 What biblical allusion does Sam make to describe the garden's positive qualities?
Garden of Eden

Baby Moses

Noah's Ark

Tower of Babel
11 Why does Wendell recognize what Kim planted?
Because he works on a farm

Because he grew up on a farm

Because he works at a restaurant

Because he grew up at a bean processing plant
12 Why does Wendell buy a shovel?
To fend off the thieves taking his tomatoes

To dig a big hole to retain water

To gift the shovel to Kim

Because he is inspired to change the lot into a garden
13 Why does Gonzalo say that his father and uncle got younger when they came to the U.S.?
Because they can't speak English and must rely on Gonzalo for help

Because they lived a healthier lifestyle there

Because they lived an easier life removed from the pressures back home

Because they started working and making more money
14 Why is Virgil embarassed in front of his teacher?
Because his father's lettuce is dying

Because his father has taken over many plots for his business venture

Because he failed her class back in grade school

Because he has a crush on her
15 What enables Tío Juan to change from a baby back to a man in Gonzalo's eyes?
Tío Juan finally gets a job

Gonzalo sees that Juan tries to learn English

Tío Juan organizes a neighborhood event

Gonzalo sees that Juan is very knowledgeable about planting
16 Why does Leona plant goldenrod?
Because her granny used it as medicine

For use in traditional southern recipes

Because she wants to dry and sell it

Because her mother was a big fan of goldenrod
17 Why does Curtis plant tomatoes?
For use in traditional Italian recipes

To win over Lateesha, who loves tomatoes

To sell to fancy restaurants in the area

To fix nitrogen in the soil
18 How does Leona finally get the Public Health Department to remove the trash from the lot?
By calling them ten times a day for a month

By bringing a smelly bag of trash to their offices

By writing letters to her congresswoman

By threatening to write a damning expose
19 How does Sam participate in the garden despite his old age?
He plays music for the gardeners

He decorates the garden

He hires a young teen to plant for him

His nurse helps him to plant in an upright bin
20 How does Sam try to repair the rips in the neighborhood's social fabric?
By raising funds to improve the garden

By being friendly to everyone, especially those who are different from him

By writing letters to politicians asking them for improved services

By organizing a harvest festival at the garden
21 Why does a homeless man rip up plants at the garden?
Because he is angry he can no longer sleep there

Because he is racist

Because the gardeners spoke unkindly to him

Because he needs food to eat
22 Why does Florence call the first gardeners seedfolks?
Because they are all immigrants

Because they migrated from Louisiana

Because they are all expert planters

Because they started the Gibb Street garden
23 Why does Sam start a contest?
To raise funds to help improve the garden

To see who can grow the biggest tomatoes

To see which kid can name all the plants in the garden

To come up with a solution to the garden's problem of water access
24 Which character does Fleischman mention as representing aspects of himself?
Wendell

Sam

Kim

Virgil
25 What event causes Nora and Mr. Myles to get to know the rest of the gardeners?
Harvest festival

Water contest

Thunderstorm

July 4th barbecue

2 Metaphors at Kim

I'm not sure what you mean by "Kim's part".

Asked by e n #1204378

Answered by Aslan on 1/7/2022 4:04 AM

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What does Virgil promise in Seedfolks?

Virgil's father promised him an 18-speed bike once they earned some money.

Asked by Noah G #1199471

Answered by jill d #170087 on 12/10/2021 5:52 PM

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What are the 2 things that the author says people rediscover in a community garden?

While the gardeners are not related by blood, and each comes from very different cultures and countries, they come to feel like they are part of a community and even a family. This is because they come to share space, interact, and to genuinely...

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 12/6/2021 4:21 PM

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