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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. What is the main crop Esperanza's father grows?
(a) Tomatoes.
(b) Grapes.
(c) Bamboo.
(d) Tobacco.
2. What does Mama do for the child who interrupted Esperanza's playing on the train?
(a) She offers the girl her shawl.
(b) She combs her hair and styles it.
(c) She offers her fruit.
(d) She makes her a doll.
3. Who is Alfonso?
(a) Esperanza's father.
(b) The boss of the field workers.
(c) The mayor.
(d) The son of one of the field workers.
4. In another recollection in Chapter 4, what was it that Papa rewarded Miguel's courage with?
(a) A train ride.
(b) Money.
(c) A belt buckle.
(d) A horse.
5. What is the job Esperanza and Isabel have at the camp?
(a) They clean bathrooms.
(b) They babysit.
(c) They chop vegetables.
(d) They pick strawberries.
Short Answer Questions
1. What picture does one of the frail beggar women carry who asks for money on the train?
2. Who is the first person to arrive at Esperanza's on the morning of her birthday?
3. At the beginning of Chapter 4, what family friend helps the Ortegas and their friends leave Mexico?
4. After Esperanza's birthday, who is spending so much time in her father's study?
5. On the wagon ride to the train station, why is Esperanza not permitted to ride with Miguel as she wants to?
Short Essay Questions
1. What disappointment does MIguel face on his first day at the camp in California?
2. What has Papa said about Tio Luis and Tio Marco that suggest that they are not men he admires?
3. Although Mama is very patient with Esperanza's huge social adjustment, there is one time when she tells Esperanza that she is ashamed of her. Explain how Esperanza embarrassed her mother.
4. What is it about the migrant worker camp that is difficult for Esperanza?
5. When Esperanza and Miguel get off the train at a temporary stop, Miguel explains a scenario that is apparently inexplicable to Esperanza. What is this scenario?
6. What is significant about Esperanza's reaction to the odors that she now smells among the peasants and on the train?
7. When Esperanza talks with her uncles in her father's office, why does the condition of her father's desk bother her?
8. In what way is the ruined rose garden a symbol?
9. Once Esperanza explains to Miguel the difference in their social class by saying that they live on different sides of the river. In what context, after the death of her father, does he repeat this expression to Esperanza?
10. Esperanza meets Marta, a girl they pick up in the truck, who is friendly with Isabel. How is Marta's reaction to Esperanza different from the treatment she had from Isabel?
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