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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Nenny’s full name?
(a) Magdalena.
(b) Nanette.
(c) Macarena.
(d) Natalia.

2. Esperanza reads that Eskimos have thirty different names for what?
(a) Water.
(b) Fish.
(c) Snow.
(d) Clouds.

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

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

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

6. What do they spend the afternoon doing?
(a) Soaking beans for dinner.
(b) Eating candy and talking about boys.
(c) Teasing the boys.
(d) Riding the bicycle all at once.

7. Who has too many kids?
(a) Meme Ortiz.
(b) Louie’s mother.
(c) Rosa Vargas.
(d) Marin.

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

9. How does Esperanza feel about the house on Mango Street?
(a) Satisfied. They are so happy to be in a home of their own.
(b) Dissatisfied. It is better than the rest, but only temporary.
(c) Angry, they were evicted from their last house.
(d) Ashamed of the level of poverty that they live in.

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

11. Who gets Esperanza a job?
(a) Uncle Nacho.
(b) Mama.
(c) Her Aunt Lala.
(d) Papa.

12. Who does she warn Nenny and Esperanza to stay away from?
(a) Joe, the baby-grabber.
(b) Louie and his cousin.
(c) Titus.
(d) Sally’s father.

13. Who does Esperanza reluctantly dance with?
(a) Her papa.
(b) Her Uncle Nacho.
(c) Nenny.
(d) Her brother, Carlos.

14. What does Alicia believe she sees?
(a) Rats.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Mice.
(d) Flies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who walks the best in the high heels?

2. Who moves into Cathy’s house?

3. The beginning of this vignette begins as what?

4. How many people are in Esperanza’s immediate family?

5. When was The House on Mango Street published?

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