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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 36: "A Smart Cookie".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the age difference between Minerva and Esperanza?
(a) Minerva is a little bit younger than Esperanza.
(b) Minerva is significantly younger than Esperanza.
(c) Minerva is significantly older than Esperanza.
(d) Minerva is a little bit older than Esperanza.

2. Esperanza describes the color of illness as being what?
(a) Green.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Yellow.

3. Why doesn’t Esperanza want to dance?
(a) She’s embarrassed by her school shoes.
(b) There are no good dance partners.
(c) She feels ill.
(d) She doesn’t know how.

4. The Vargas kids are without respect for _________?
(a) Nature.
(b) People.
(c) Animals.
(d) All things living.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Esperanza have to lie about when she shows up on her first day at her new job?

2. Who tells Esperanza, “I could have been somebody”?

3. Who moves into Cathy’s house?

4. How many steps are in the front of Meme’s house?

5. What bird does Esperanza compare Sally’s hair to?

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