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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 33: "Minerva Writes Poems".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Minerva do after her children have gone to sleep?
(a) Write poems.
(b) Drink wine.
(c) Fight with her husband.
(d) Cry.

2. What does Minerva already have?
(a) Two kids and a husband, who left.
(b) Wrinkles.
(c) A house.
(d) A college degree.

3. Why are Louie’s parents sending Marin back to P.R. next year?
(a) She's pregnant.
(b) She refuses to babysit.
(c) She is too expensive to feed and house.
(d) They say she is too much trouble.

4. What does she plan on doing as soon as she gets back to P.R.?
(a) Marry her boyfriend.
(b) Have more children.
(c) Attend university.
(d) Teach elementary school.

5. What does Marin do for work to earn money?
(a) She tutors children after school.
(b) She sells Avon and babysits.
(c) She works as a clerk at the grocery store.
(d) She cleans houses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Marin’s boyfriend live?

2. Esperanza is overcome with grief at the end of this vignette, why is this?

3. Whose father was it?

4. Who crumples like a coat and cries?

5. Who has died at the beginning of this vignette?

(see the answer key)

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