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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why is Minerva black and blue?

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

5. Whose father was it?

(see the answer key)

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