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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 37: "What Sally Said".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the canteen kids get to eat lunch at school?
(a) They are older kids.
(b) They can afford to buy the school lunch.
(c) They live too far to walk home.
(d) Their mothers are not home.

2. Why is Esperanza sent to school with a rice sandwich?
(a) Her mother thinks that rice is the most nutritious thing to eat.
(b) Her brother is playing a trick on her.
(c) The family doesn’t have any meat.
(d) This is what her family likes to eat.

3. Where does Louie’s cousin take them on their ride in the Cadillac?
(a) Around the block.
(b) To the countryside.
(c) To town.
(d) To the beach.

4. Who arrives in a yellow taxicab?
(a) Sally and her father.
(b) Edna and Ruthie.
(c) Earl and his mother.
(d) Mamacita and her baby boy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who meets Geraldo?

2. How many days does it take Esperanza to convince her mother to allow her to eat in the canteen?

3. Why does Esperanza believe Mamacita won’t come down from her apartment?

4. What does Sally’s father believe beauty brings?

5. Darius believes that one cloud looks like __________?

(see the answer key)

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