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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. How does Esperanza get back and forth to the camp from the hospital?
(a) In a wagon.
(b) In the doctor's car.
(c) In the truck.
(d) In a taxi.

2. In Chapter 8, it is harvest time. What crop is the family harvesting?
(a) Corn.
(b) Strawberries.
(c) Grapes.
(d) Plums.

3. Who is Mr. Yakota?
(a) The foreman.
(b) The market owner.
(c) The doctor's nephew.
(d) The strike organizer.

4. What special dessert is Isabel's mother is making on Saturday night?
(a) Almond flan.
(b) Fried dough.
(c) Corn bread.
(d) Rice pudding.

5. In Chapter 8, who tells Esperanza that the strike that was planned for the next day will not take place?
(a) Alfonso.
(b) Miguel.
(c) Mama.
(d) Isabel.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Esperanza asks Isabel for news that she has heard at school, what is the new construction that Isabel tells them about?

2. What is the surprise Alfonso and Miguel show the women after dinner in Chapter 7?

3. What is one of the dishes that the families have on this first dinner together?

4. Esperanza gives the babies rice water to sip. From whom does she get this idea?

5. When Esperanza brings the requested object to the hospital, what does it smell of?

Short Essay Questions

1. As Miguel and Esperanza drive to the market, what does Esperanza notice, apparently for the first time about herself?

2. In Chapter 9, before Mama is in the hospital, how does the reader see that her illness affects all?

3. How does Miguel's attitude toward his job being taken away differ from Esperanza's position about this injustice?

4. In Chapter 11, the strikers want to impede the progress of the asparagus harvest. Why is that an effective tactic?

5. Comment on the image of communal life at this work camp once the work day is over that Ryan portrays in Chapter 7.

6. When Esperanza helps Marta after the immigration sweep, what is it about Marta that wins over Esperanza?

7. In Chapter 9, when Esperanza brings the blanket to the hospital, why do she and Mama cry?

8. Where are Esperanza's sympathies with regard to the strikers?

9. Isabel wants to be the May Day Queen. When she tells Esperanza this, what is ironic about her reason for wanting to be this queen?

10. What is the symbolic significance of the the shrine Alfonso and Miguel erect?

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