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

2. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Minerva black and blue?

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

3. Where does Marin’s boyfriend live?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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