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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. Who is Ada?
(a) A woman Esperanza works with.
(b) A nurse.
(c) Marta's mother.
(d) The market owner.

2. After the first crop of harvest time is picked, what is the next crop ready to harvest?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Corn.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Strawberries.

3. Esperanza gives the babies rice water to sip. From whom does she get this idea?
(a) Hortensia.
(b) Mama.
(c) Isabel.
(d) Miguel.

4. What does Esperanza discover when she opens her valise?
(a) The valise is completely empty.
(b) Her doll is gone.
(c) Her money is gone.
(d) The card she made for Isabel is gone.

5. With someone sick, how do Alfonso and Juan make conditions better?
(a) They paint this person's room.
(b) The clean this person's tiny window.
(c) They hang curtains for privacy.
(d) They repair a ceiling in this person's room.

Short Answer Questions

1. On Christmas day, what is Mama's condition?

2. With regard to strikers, what have Miguel's experiences been?

3. What special dessert is Isabel's mother is making on Saturday night?

4. Before Esperanza leaves the hospital after Mama's diagnosis, what does she do for Mama?

5. In Chapter 8, it is harvest time. What crop is the family harvesting?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. At dinner when the family discusses the strike and its progress, how does Miguel's outlook differ from his father's outlook about the support for the strike?

4. In Chapter 9, when Mama is in the hospital, describe the quality of Esperanza's care giving.

5. In what way is Mama's illness a commentary on the working conditions of the migrant workers?

6. At the end of the Chapter 7, Esperanza prays. How do her prayers reveal the subtle change she is beginning to make?

7. What is the significance of Esperanza's visit to the hospital on Christmas Day?

8. 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?

9. In what way could one see that there is even a subtle class system inherent among migrant workers?

10. When the doctor comes to examine Mama and diagnose her illness, how does Esperanza react?

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