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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13: "There Was an Old Woman...".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nenny want to buy, but Gil tells her it is not for sale?
(a) A baby doll.
(b) A shawl.
(c) A music box.
(d) A typewriter.

2. With whom is Louie friends with?
(a) Rachel’s brother.
(b) Titus.
(c) Esperanza’s brother.
(d) Meme Ortiz.

3. What does Esperanza once buy for a dime?
(a) A statue of liberty figurine.
(b) A baby doll.
(c) A book.
(d) A porcelain mug.

4. Esperanza believes that boys and girls live in separate what?
(a) Worlds.
(b) Times.
(c) Quarters.
(d) She does not believe that there are that many differences between boys and girls.

5. Who is too young to be her friend?
(a) Titus, the neighbor boy.
(b) Kiki, her brother.
(c) Lucy, the neighbor girl.
(d) Nenny, her younger sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Esperanza’s family buy from Gil’s Furniture?

2. Who lives below Meme in a basement apartment?

3. Someday she says she’ll tell all of her secrets to whom?

4. Whom does she describe as best friends?

5. At the end of this vignette she uses a metaphor to compare herself to a what?

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