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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Earl live?
(a) In Edna’s basement apartment.
(b) With Edna and Ruthie.
(c) With Louie’s family.
(d) With Rosa Vargas.

2. Where does Sally get married?
(a) In a state that allows girls to get married before the eighth grade.
(b) In a park.
(c) In Las Vegas.
(d) In the local church.

3. Why doesn’t Rafaela leave her apartment?
(a) She doesn’t like talking to her neighbors.
(b) Her husband locks her inside.
(c) She is too ill.
(d) Her baby is sick.

4. What did Esperanza’s mother used to do?
(a) Sing opera.
(b) Teach.
(c) Write.
(d) Swim.

5. What is wrong with Mamacita?
(a) She is ill with a rare disease.
(b) She is homesick.
(c) She has no food to eat.
(d) Her little baby is sick.

6. Who does Esperanza notice watching her when she crosses the street?
(a) Titus.
(b) Earl.
(c) Gil.
(d) Sire and his friends.

7. Who visits Earl on a regular basis?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His wife.
(c) His mother.
(d) Different women, presumably prostitutes.

8. Why will Esperanza come back to Mango Street?
(a) She will come back because she misses her friends.
(b) She will come back for the ones she left behind.
(c) She will come back to help her family.
(d) She will never come back.

9. What do they make a clubhouse out of?
(a) Vine overgrowth.
(b) A shed.
(c) An apple tree.
(d) An old blue pickup.

10. Who dies?
(a) Rachel and Lucy's cousin.
(b) Rachel and Lucy’s mother.
(c) Rachel and Lucy’s baby sister.
(d) Rachel and Lucy’s grandmother.

11. What does Esperanza promise to never forget?
(a) Her grandfather.
(b) Angel Vargas.
(c) Who she is or where she came from.
(d) Sally's sadness.

12. Which adult likes to play with children?
(a) Sally.
(b) Gil.
(c) Ruthie.
(d) Edna.

13. Why does Esperanza find these trees so miraculous?
(a) They are growing well in a patch of a neighborhood with little to sustain them.
(b) They have exquisite flowers.
(c) They have massive branches.
(d) They are very tall.

14. Esperanza describes the color of illness as being what?
(a) Yellow.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Green.

15. What point of view is The House on Mango Street written?
(a) Second.
(b) Third – limited.
(c) First.
(d) Third – omniscient.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Esperanza like to be with Sally?

2. What does Ruthie ask the girls to buy her at the grocery store?

3. Who tells Esperanza, “I could have been somebody”?

4. What isn’t Sally supposed to do due to her family’s religious beliefs?

5. What is the age difference between Minerva and Esperanza?

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