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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) Cry.
(d) Fight with her husband.

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

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

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

5. Who has died at the beginning of this vignette?
(a) Esperanza’s abuelito.
(b) Esperanza’s Papa.
(c) Esperanza’s Aunt Lupe.
(d) Esperanza’s younger sister.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why are Louie’s parents sending Marin back to P.R. next year?

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

4. Whose father was it?

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

(see the answer key)

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