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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rafaela ask the girls to buy her?
(a) Coconut – or sometimes – papaya juice.
(b) Birth control.
(c) Candy.
(d) Magazines and books.

2. What kind of place does Esperanza want to live in?
(a) A mansion that has 8 bathrooms.
(b) An apartment in a nice downtown neighborhood.
(c) A house that is all her own, a house that is quiet as snow.
(d) A house full of children and a husband.

3. What does Minerva already have?
(a) Wrinkles.
(b) Two kids and a husband, who left.
(c) A house.
(d) A college degree.

4. Who does Esperanza compare Eddie Vargas to because he falls asleep under a hibiscus tree?
(a) Sleeping Beauty.
(b) Prince Charming.
(c) Rumpelstiltskin.
(d) Rip Van Winkle.

5. Why does Esperanza go to the fortune-teller?
(a) To see how long she will live.
(b) To see if her mama gets better.
(c) She wants to know about her future house.
(d) She wants to know how many children she will have.

6. When does Earl work?
(a) At night.
(b) He does not work.
(c) In the morning.
(d) During the day.

7. Why does Esperanza believe Mamacita won’t come down from her apartment?
(a) She is too sick to leave.
(b) She doesn’t like Mango Street.
(c) Her baby is too sick to leave.
(d) Esperanza believes she is afraid to speak English.

8. Who arrives in a yellow taxicab?
(a) Edna and Ruthie.
(b) Mamacita and her baby boy.
(c) Earl and his mother.
(d) Sally and her father.

9. What bird does Esperanza compare Sally’s hair to?
(a) A peacock.
(b) A dove.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A raven.

10. What does Sally do before she goes home?
(a) She straightens her skirt and rubs her makeup off of her eyes.
(b) Covers her hair with her headscarf.
(c) Brushes her teeth.
(d) Meditates.

11. What or whom does Esperanza believe understands her?
(a) Sire.
(b) The clouds and sky.
(c) The four skinny trees outside her bedroom window.
(d) Sally.

12. Why is Minerva black and blue?
(a) Her children beat her.
(b) She is very clumsy.
(c) Her husband beats her.
(d) She is sick with cancer.

13. What/who goes with Earl everywhere?
(a) Two little black dogs.
(b) His son.
(c) His red-tailed macaw.
(d) His wife.

14. What does Sally do instead of run around with the other kids in the monkey garden?
(a) She goes shopping with her friends.
(b) She flirts with Tito and his friends.
(c) She goes inside to cook and sew.
(d) She goes to the library to study.

15. Who dies?
(a) Rachel and Lucy’s grandmother.
(b) Rachel and Lucy's cousin.
(c) Rachel and Lucy’s mother.
(d) Rachel and Lucy’s baby sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rafaela’s husband do on Tuesday nights?

2. How has Esperanza “begun her own quiet war”?

3. Why will Esperanza come back to Mango Street?

4. What is Tito’s mother doing when Esperanza goes to her house?

5. What happened to the monkey?

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