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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: "Laughter".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do Nenny and Esperanza resemble each other?
(a) They have the same thick hair.
(b) They have the same laughter.
(c) They have the same fat Popsicle lips.
(d) They are the same height.

3. Who wouldn’t marry, at first?
(a) Her great-grandmother.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her aunt.

4. What does Esperanza’s name mean in English?
(a) Patience.
(b) Faith.
(c) Constance.
(d) Hope.

5. Someday she says she’ll tell all of her secrets to whom?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her sister, Nenny.
(c) Her best friend.
(d) Her Aunt Lupe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they spend the afternoon doing?

2. What is the “little one’s” name?

3. Esperanza believes that boys and girls live in separate what?

4. A house. What does Esperanza see that reminds her of Mexico?

5. Who is Esperanza named after?

(see the answer key)

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