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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19: "Chanclas".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the end of this vignette she uses a metaphor to compare herself to a what?
(a) A giraffe.
(b) An anchor.
(c) A rushing river.
(d) A red balloon.

3. Why are Louie’s parents sending Marin back to P.R. next year?
(a) She's pregnant.
(b) They say she is too much trouble.
(c) She is too expensive to feed and house.
(d) She refuses to babysit.

4. The beginning of this vignette begins as what?
(a) A dream of Esperanza’s.
(b) A made up story by Esperanza about the family with little feet.
(c) A poem.
(d) An article from the newspaper.

5. What happens to Angel Vargas?
(a) He is hit and killed by a car.
(b) He breaks his arms from jumping out of a tree.
(c) He is playing on the roof and pretends to fly, only to fall to his death.
(d) He gets head lice and is sent home from school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nenny begin naming during the girls’ discussion?

2. Who is standing at the front door holding boxes and bags of new clothes?

3. Who walks the best in the high heels?

4. From where have the two girls just moved?

5. Who wins the First Annual Tarzan Jumping Contest?

(see the answer key)

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