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The Secret Garden True or False

1. What does the line, “Where you tend a rose, my lad/A thistle cannot grow” (27.3) mean, metaphorically? -> If you encourage good things to grow, there won’t be any room for bad things left.
2. Who first teaches Ben Weatherstaff how to look after rose bushes? -> Dickon Sowerby
3. What does Mary ask of Archibald Craven in Chapter 12, when she wants to start working in the Secret Garden? -> “Might I have a bit of earth?”
4. Who brings Mary the first seeds that she plants in the Secret Garden? -> Ben Weatherstaff
5. What does Ben Weatherstaff help Colin to do when Ben first enters the Secret Garden? -> Plant a rose bush

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