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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 is Alicia afraid of?
(a) Being in charge of making the tortillas.
(b) Mice, and her father.
(c) Living without her mother.
(d) Her younger brothers.

2. What has made Esperanza’s mother sick, or so she thinks?
(a) Too many tamales.
(b) Too much alcohol.
(c) Too much dancing.
(d) The flu.

3. What has Esperanza’s mother forgotten to buy?
(a) Dress gloves.
(b) Esperanza’s new shoes.
(c) A muff.
(d) Esperanza’s new dress.

4. Whom does she describe as best friends?
(a) Nenny and Kiki.
(b) Kiki and Carlos.
(c) Carlos and Titus.
(d) Lucy and Rachel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do they want five dollars from Esperanza?

2. Where does Esperanza want to eat lunch?

3. What is Meme’s real name?

4. What do the canteen kids where around their necks?

5. Why must Alicia be the one to wake early to make the lunchbox tortillas?

(see the answer key)

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