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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 37: "What Sally Said".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rachel believe is “good for holding babies while you are cooking”?
(a) Baby backpacks.
(b) Baby slings.
(c) Hips.
(d) Arms.

2. How has Esperanza “begun her own quiet war”?
(a) By challenging gender expectations and roles.
(b) By befriending only girls.
(c) By refusing to do what her teachers tell her to do.
(d) By defying her parents’ desires.

3. How does Esperanza describe the siren archetype in movies?
(a) As pathetic, but beautiful.
(b) As tall, Amazonian, and beautiful.
(c) As beautiful, cruel – and powerful.
(d) As blond and blue-eyed.

4. Who arrives in a yellow taxicab?
(a) Mamacita and her baby boy.
(b) Earl and his mother.
(c) Sally and her father.
(d) Edna and Ruthie.

5. Where does Esperanza want to eat lunch?
(a) The canteen at school.
(b) At home with her mother.
(c) At Lucy and Rachel’s house.
(d) In her favorite teacher’s classroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bird does Esperanza compare Sally’s hair to?

2. Where does Louie’s cousin take them on their ride in the Cadillac?

3. Why is Esperanza sent to school with a rice sandwich?

4. Why do the canteen kids get to eat lunch at school?

5. Whom does she describe as best friends?

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