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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who lives below Meme in a basement apartment?
(a) Louie’s family.
(b) Edna and Ruthie.
(c) Lucy and Rachel.
(d) Joe, the baby grabber.

2. With whom is Louie friends with?
(a) Titus.
(b) Esperanza’s brother.
(c) Rachel’s brother.
(d) Meme Ortiz.

3. What does Esperanza have to lie about when she shows up on her first day at her new job?
(a) Where she lives.
(b) Her age.
(c) Her gender.
(d) Her ethnicity.

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

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

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

7. What does she plan on doing as soon as she gets back to P.R.?
(a) Teach elementary school.
(b) Marry her boyfriend.
(c) Have more children.
(d) Attend university.

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

9. Finish the quote: “Here there is too much sadness and not enough __________.”
(a) Freedom.
(b) Sky.
(c) Money.
(d) Land.

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

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

12. How does it make Esperanza feel when the nun asked, “You live there?”
(a) "Sad."
(b) Like “nothing.”
(c) Like she was “lucky.”
(d) "Proud."

13. Why does Esperanza believe Rosa Vargas is so upset?
(a) She doesn’t like her children because they are rude.
(b) She’s overweight.
(c) Her husband left her with a whole bunch of kids and no money.
(d) She's tired.

14. How many steps are in the front of Meme’s house?
(a) 32.
(b) 10.
(c) 41.
(d) 21.

15. What is the “big one’s” name?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Ruthie.
(c) Lucy.
(d) Nenny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has died at the beginning of this vignette?

2. Where is Esperanza’s new job?

3. Whose father was it?

4. Who built the house that Meme lives in?

5. What happens to Angel Vargas?

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