The Flowers Quizzes

The Flowers Quiz

1 Who is the main character in this story?
Myop

Jerome

Alice

Jane
2 How old is the main character?
Ten

Six

Twenty-seven

Fifteen
3 Where does Myop live?
A sharecropper's cabin

A large city

A desert

An island
4 What does Myop enjoy doing?
Tapping her stick along the fence

Gathering flowers

Watching pigs root by the banks of a small river

All of these
5 What best describes Myop's emotional state at the beginning of the story?
She is fearful because her father didn't come home last night

She thinks that the days are beautiful

She is curious about the sounds she heard behind the house

She is sad because her mother was crying
6 What type of flowers does Myop find?
Blue flowers

Purple flowers

Red flowers

Yellow flowers
7 What did Myop step on?
The face of a dead man

A rabbit

A landmine

A snake
8 What best describes the dead man?
He had been very tall

He was only a skeleton

He had not been dead for a very long time

He had been very short
9 What detail indicates that the man had been dead for a long time?
She recognizes his face from a missing-person sign

He has a newspaper from six months ago lying next to him

His clothes have rotten away and his overall buttons have turned green

He is wearing nineteenth-century clothing
10 What item does Myop see that indicates how this man died?
A noose

A rifle

A gun

A dead bear
11 What does Myop see growing near the item that indicates how the man died?
A pink rose

A red fern

Poison ivy

Nothing
12 What does Myop do with her flowers?
Throws them away

Brings them to her mother

Places them next to the dead man

Feeds them to the pigs
13 What best describes the meaning of the sentence "And then the summer was over"?
Myop has spent a very long time wandering in the woods

The seasons have changed

Myop's life was over

Myop has lost her innocence

Myop lives in a sharecroppers cabin, why is this an important detail?

Through "The Flowers," Alice Walker portrays the condition of African-American people. Many of them, such as Myop and her family, are sharecroppers—in other words, they are paid a very small amount of money to engage in back-breaking labor on...

Asked by yesli r #1150763

Answered by jill d #170087 on 5/17/2021 11:13 PM