Q 01/05

In Eugenia Collier's Marigolds, what does the adult Lizabeth remember most about the shantytown where she grew up?

A) Hunger

B) Dust

C) Heat

D) Mud

Answer · why

B) Dust

Dust is what her memory keeps, brown and crumbly, though the town surely had lawns and trees too. Against it, Miss Lottie's yellow flowers were the on...

Q 02/05

Which US president's name was mockingly given to Great Depression shantytowns, the kind of place where Marigolds is set?

A) Herbert Hoover

B) Calvin Coolidge

C) Franklin D. Roosevelt

D) Warren G. Harding

Answer · why

A) Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover was president when the slump began and took the blame, so homeless camps became Hoovervilles. An empty pocket turned inside out was cal...

Q 03/05

In Eugenia Collier's Marigolds, what is it about Miss Lottie's flowers that makes the neighborhood children hate them?

A) Their strong smell

B) Their sticky pollen

C) Their beauty

D) Their high price

Answer · why

C) Their beauty

Their beauty is the offense: the flowers spoil the perfect ugliness of a poor town and hint at a better life the children cannot reach.

Q 04/05

In Eugenia Collier's Marigolds, what do Lizabeth and her friends throw at Miss Lottie's flowers one bored summer day?

A) Mud balls

B) Sticks

C) Rotten fruit

D) Stones

Answer · why

D) Stones

Stones knock the heads off several blooms while the children hide in the bushes. Lizabeth leads the raid even though part of her already finds the gam...

Q 05/05

In Marigolds by Eugenia Collier, what do the taunting children call elderly Miss Lottie as they dance around her?

A) A ghost

B) A witch

C) A scarecrow

D) A thief

Answer · why

B) A witch

A witch is what some of them once truly believed she was, since she never left her yard and nobody ever visited. By fourteen Lizabeth knows better and...