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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Ramona is weighing her options, who explains her options?
2. Who made the first cut at harvest time?
3. After Mama talks with Esperanza in the cabin, what does Esperanza promise her mother?
4. When the lawyer comes to explain Papa's will, who is to receive the income for the grapes?
5. What outstanding fact does Marta reveal about her father?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the substance of the lecture Mama offers Esperanza when she realizes Alfonso and Hortensia hear Esperanza whining?
2. In what way is the ruined rose garden a symbol?
3. How does Miguel help Esperanza in her adjustment to work when she is left to do household chores?
4. 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?
5. In addition to Esperanza's father's death, what else is awful about the way in which Esperanza wakes on on her birthday?
6. When all are planning to work in California, Esperanza says she will work, and everyone laughs. What tone did the author intend for this laugh?
7. Every chapter is named after a fruit, and that fruit has a role in the action of the chapter. This chapter is "The Guavas." What role do the guavas play in the action of Chapter 4?
8. 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?
9. What is it about the migrant worker camp that is difficult for Esperanza?
10. When Esperanza talks with her uncles in her father's office, why does the condition of her father's desk bother her?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout the novel, the female characters are crocheting lace, teaching crocheting, giving crocheted gifts. Sometimes it is the actual crocheted article that is important; at other times, the activity itself is emphasized. What might crocheting symbolize, or come to symbolize, to the women of El Rancho de las Rosas?
Essay Topic 2
The Ortegas and Alfonso's family are never far from nature. Even when they are rich, Ryan resorts to nature imagery. Later, when they live as peasants, they are close to nature. Discuss the role of nature and the nature imagery in Esperanza Rising.
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 2 of Esperanza Rising, Esperanza is at a low point and her grandmother reminds her of a story she has told Esperanza many times, the myth of the phoenix rising out of its own ashes. What is inspirational about this myth and why is it appropriate that Abuelita, rather than any other character, be the one to refer to this myth at this time?
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