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

2. Who crumples like a coat and cries?
(a) Esperanza’s papa.
(b) Esperanza’s grandfather.
(c) Esperanza’s mama.
(d) Esperanza.

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

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

5. Whose father was it?
(a) Esperanza’s father’s father.
(b) Aunt Lupe’s father.
(c) Esperanza’s.
(d) Esperanza’s mother’s father.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Marin do when her aunt goes to sleep?

3. What does Marin do for work to earn money?

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

5. What is the age difference between Minerva and Esperanza?

(see the answer key)

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