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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marin do when her aunt goes to sleep?
(a) She cooks and makes lunches for all of the kids the following day.
(b) She stands under the streetlights smoking and listening to the radio.
(c) She sews baby clothing.
(d) Drinks tequila.

2. Where does Esperanza want to eat lunch?
(a) In her favorite teacher’s classroom.
(b) The canteen at school.
(c) At home with her mother.
(d) At Lucy and Rachel’s house.

3. While they are talking about hips, what else are the girls doing?
(a) Walking in high-heeled shoes.
(b) Riding their bicycles.
(c) Jumping rope.
(d) Sitting on the front steps of Sally’s house.

4. When was The House on Mango Street published?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1967.
(c) 2011.
(d) 1984.

5. Who crumples like a coat and cries?
(a) Esperanza’s grandfather.
(b) Esperanza.
(c) Esperanza’s papa.
(d) Esperanza’s mama.

6. Who is Esperanza named after?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her great-grandmother.
(d) Her mother.

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

8. What does Darius point out?
(a) How dry and barren everything is.
(b) Four skinny sickly trees.
(c) The flatness of the earth.
(d) Clouds that look like pillows.

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

10. “My papa’s hair is like a broom” is an example of what?
(a) A simile.
(b) A metaphor.
(c) Personification.
(d) Alliteration.

11. Who is too young to be her friend?
(a) Kiki, her brother.
(b) Lucy, the neighbor girl.
(c) Nenny, her younger sister.
(d) Titus, the neighbor boy.

12. What happens at the end of their discussion?
(a) They are laughing at how silly they are.
(b) They all get in an argument and begin teasing each other.
(c) They decide to go buy some candy.
(d) They ride their bicycle around town.

13. What kind of dog does Meme have?
(a) A sheepdog.
(b) A shepherd.
(c) A golden retriever.
(d) A beagle.

14. Who is standing at the front door holding boxes and bags of new clothes?
(a) Esperanza’s papa.
(b) Esperanza’s Mama.
(c) Uncle Nacho.
(d) Aunt Lupe.

15. Why does Esperanza think that Rachel and Lucy look alike?
(a) They have the same laughter.
(b) They have the same thick hair.
(c) They are the same height.
(d) They have the same fat Popsicle lips.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who drives up in a great big yellow Cadillac?

2. Who lives below Meme in a basement apartment?

3. Who does Cathy believe she is a descendent of?

4. Who does she warn Nenny and Esperanza to stay away from?

5. Where does Louie’s cousin take them on their ride in the Cadillac?

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