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Mrs. Flowers Study Guide
1. How does Marguerite feel when Mrs. Flowers reads?
2. What is the setting of the story?
3. Why does Mrs. Flowers ask Marguerite to carry her packages?
4. Why do you think Mrs. Flowers isn’t upset when Marguerite refuses to talk to her?
5. How does Marguerite respond when Mrs. Flowers says she had plans to invite Marguerite for cookies
and lemonade?
6. What is Mrs. Flowers’s motivation for paying attention to Marguerite?
7. Overall, how does Mrs. Flowers affect Marguerite?
8. Why does Mrs. Flowers want Marguerite to read aloud?
9. What is one internal conflict in the story and how is it resolved?
Vocabulary Study: Give me a synonym and antonym for each word
10. Taut – tightly stretched
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11. Benign – kindly
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