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Spanish Difficult Review Quiz - Vocabulary - At the Flower Shop! (Questions)

In this Spanish Difficult Review quiz you will be looking at a bouquet of beautiful flowers that are found at the flower shop. Flowers are part of so many different occasions in life. They signify love, sorrow and happiness. They are used at births, parties, weddings, anniversaries, holidays and even deaths.

When you cannot say what you are feeling with words, flowers can say it for you. Because they are so important, it is important to know how to talk about flowers in your new language of Spanish. Many of the floral names are similar in both languages but some can be quite different so they will require a little more time to remember them and their spellings. Although there are hundreds of different flowers throughout the world, this quiz will focus only on the more popular flowers. Now, let’s see what those flowers are.

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BOUQUET OF FLOWERS

ENGLISH	SPANISH
African lily	lirio africano [m]
aster	aster [m]
baby’ breath	respiración del bebé [m]
carnation	clavel [m]
chrysanthemum	crisantemo [m]
cornflower	aciano [m]
daffodil	narciso [m]
daisy	margarita [f]
edelweiss	edelweiss [m]
heather	brezo [m]
hydrangea	hortensia [f]
iris	iris [m]
jonquil	junquillo [m]
lavender	lavanda [f]
lilac	lila [f]
lily	lirio [m]
lily-of-the-valley	lirio de los valles [m]
orchid	orquídea [f]
pansy	pensamiento [m]
peony	peonía [f]
poppy	amapola [f]
Queen Anne’s Lace	cordón de la reina Ana [f]
rose	rosa [f]
tulip	tulipán [m]
zinnia	zinnia [f]

Mmmm – can you smell the sweetness! Okay then – it is time to see just how well you can remember these flowers in Spanish. No peeking back at the introduction during the quiz! For each quiz sentence given, see how quickly you can locate the Spanish flower that translates the all capitalized English flower, that answers a question or that would fit into the blank space to complete the sentence!

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A ROSE by any other name would smell as sweet.

[ ]	hortensia
[ ]	orquídea
[ ]	narciso
[ ]	rosa

Tip-toe through the ____ with me.

[ ]	claveles
[ ]	tulipanes
[ ]	pensamientos
[ ]	junquillos

She wore an AFRICAN LILY in her hair.

[ ]	lirio de los valles
[ ]	cordón de la reina Ana
[ ]	lirio africano
[ ]	respiración del bebé

Did you know that the ORCHID is symbolic for beauty, charm, peace, strength and elegance?

[ ]	orquídea
[ ]	aciano
[ ]	amapola
[ ]	brezo

In the musical movie The Sound of Music there is a song about this small and white, clean and bright flower. What is that flower called?

[ ]	aster
[ ]	iris
[ ]	edelweiss
[ ]	lila

In the movie The Wizard of Oz, the wicked witch used this flower to put Dorothy and her friends to sleep. What was it?

[ ]	pensamientos
[ ]	amapolas
[ ]	junquillos
[ ]	narcisos

This flower has the same name as a part of the eye. What is it?

[ ]	zinnia
[ ]	peonía
[ ]	crisantemo
[ ]	iris

During the prom, girls pin a ____ on their date’s lapel.

[ ]	clavel
[ ]	narciso
[ ]	margarita
[ ]	hortensia

A little touch of BABY'S BREATH helps to decorate a bouquet of flowers.

[ ]	lavanda
[ ]	lirio de los valles
[ ]	respiración del bebé
[ ]	crisantemo

10.

This is the flower of Easter.

[ ]	lavanda
[ ]	lila
[ ]	narciso
[ ]	lirio

Spanish Difficult Review Quiz - Vocabulary - At the Flower Shop! (Answers)

A ROSE by any other name would smell as sweet.

[ ]	hortensia
[ ]	orquídea
[ ]	narciso
[x]	rosa

This is a very well-known statement and the Spanish word for rose is rosa.

Tip-toe through the ____ with me.

[ ]	claveles
[x]	tulipanes
[ ]	pensamientos
[ ]	junquillos

This was once a very popular song sung by Tiny Tim. It goes: Tip-toe through the tulips with me. The Spanish word for tulips is tulipanes. Notice that the accent mark got dropped when the word was made plural.

She wore an AFRICAN LILY in her hair.

[ ]	lirio de los valles
[ ]	cordón de la reina Ana
[x]	lirio africano
[ ]	respiración del bebé

The Spanish words for African lily are lirio africano.

Did you know that the ORCHID is symbolic for beauty, charm, peace, strength and elegance?

[x]	orquídea
[ ]	aciano
[ ]	amapola
[ ]	brezo

The Spanish word for orchid is orquídea.

In the musical movie The Sound of Music there is a song about this small and white, clean and bright flower. What is that flower called?

[ ]	aster
[ ]	iris
[x]	edelweiss
[ ]	lila

In the musical movie The Sound of Music the song about a small white, clean and bright flower was called edelweiss. It is spelled the same in both English and Spanish.

In the movie The Wizard of Oz, the wicked witch used this flower to put Dorothy and her friends to sleep. What was it?

[ ]	pensamientos
[x]	amapolas
[ ]	junquillos
[ ]	narcisos

In the movie The Wizard of Oz, the wicked witch used poppies to put Dorothy and her friends to sleep. The Spanish word for poppies is amapolas.

This flower has the same name as a part of the eye. What is it?

[ ]	zinnia
[ ]	peonía
[ ]	crisantemo
[x]	iris

The flower that has the same names as a part of the eye is the iris. The iris is the colored part of the eye. Iris is spelled the same in English and Spanish.

During the prom, girls pin a ____ on their date’s lapel.

[x]	clavel
[ ]	narciso
[ ]	margarita
[ ]	hortensia

During the prom, girls generally pin a carnation onto the lapel of their date. The Spanish word for carnation is clavel.

A little touch of BABY'S BREATH helps to decorate a bouquet of flowers.

[ ]	lavanda
[ ]	lirio de los valles
[x]	respiración del bebé
[ ]	crisantemo

The Spanish words for baby’s breath are respiración del bebé.

10.

This is the flower of Easter.

[ ]	lavanda
[ ]	lila
[ ]	narciso
[x]	lirio

The flower of Easter is the lily. The Spanish word for lily is lirio.