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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 Marin do when her aunt goes to sleep?
(a) She sews baby clothing.
(b) She stands under the streetlights smoking and listening to the radio.
(c) Drinks tequila.
(d) She cooks and makes lunches for all of the kids the following day.

2. Why is Minerva black and blue?
(a) Her children beat her.
(b) Her husband beats her.
(c) She is very clumsy.
(d) She is sick with cancer.

3. Esperanza is overcome with grief at the end of this vignette, why is this?
(a) She thinks of dying herself.
(b) She misses her abuelito.
(c) She hates funerals and does not want to go.
(d) She thinks of her own father dying.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does she plan on doing as soon as she gets back to P.R.?

2. Where does Marin’s boyfriend live?

3. What does Minerva already have?

4. Who crumples like a coat and cries?

5. Whose father was it?

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