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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) Her younger brothers.
(c) Living without her mother.
(d) Mice, and her father.

2. What do the canteen kids where around their necks?
(a) Lunch money pouches.
(b) Beaded necklaces.
(c) Name tags.
(d) House keys.

3. What is Esperanza comparing in her family?
(a) Their hair.
(b) Their feet.
(c) Their teeth.
(d) Their laughter.

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

5. Why must Alicia be the one to wake early to make the lunchbox tortillas?
(a) No one else in her family will do it.
(b) Her father told her she must.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Her mother has died and she is the oldest woman in the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Marin’s boyfriend live?

2. What did Carlos sell to Gil?

3. Whom does she describe as best friends?

4. What do the girls find in this vignette?

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

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