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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does she describe as best friends?
(a) Kiki and Carlos.
(b) Lucy and Rachel.
(c) Nenny and Kiki.
(d) Carlos and Titus.

2. What do they spend the afternoon doing?
(a) Teasing the boys.
(b) Soaking beans for dinner.
(c) Riding the bicycle all at once.
(d) Eating candy and talking about boys.

3. What does Esperanza have to lie about when she shows up on her first day at her new job?
(a) Her gender.
(b) Where she lives.
(c) Her age.
(d) Her ethnicity.

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

5. Darius believes that one cloud looks like __________?
(a) An eagle.
(b) A cross.
(c) A flag.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does she warn Nenny and Esperanza to stay away from?

2. How does it make Esperanza feel when the nun asked, “You live there?”

3. What is the “little one’s” name?

4. Where does Esperanza’s family go?

5. What is Alicia afraid of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Nenny and Esperanza think that the house they see looks like Mexico?

2. Why is Esperanza not afraid of the people in her neighborhood?

3. Why does Esperanza describe this day as a “good” day?

4. Why does she take a rice sandwich to school?

5. Why does Esperanza want to eat in the canteen?

6. Why is Cathy’s family moving out of the neighborhood?

7. How does Esperanza describe her mother’s hair? What is her mother’s hair a metaphor for?

8. What does she mean by: “That is how it goes and goes”?

9. Why are they “tired of being beautiful”?

10. Why does Esperanza write: “here there is too much sadness and not enough sky” (p.33)?

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