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

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

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

4. Where does Marin’s boyfriend live?
(a) Puerto Rico.
(b) Texas.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Mexico.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Minerva already have?

2. Whose father was it?

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

4. What does Minerva do after her children have gone to sleep?

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

(see the answer key)

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