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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Esperanza while she is waiting for Sally?
(a) She gets lost.
(b) She falls asleep and wakes up disoriented.
(c) She is raped.
(d) She’s kidnapped and beaten.

2. Why doesn’t Rafaela leave her apartment?
(a) Her husband locks her inside.
(b) She doesn’t like talking to her neighbors.
(c) She is too ill.
(d) Her baby is sick.

3. Who is Elenita?
(a) Rachel’s mother.
(b) A fortune-teller.
(c) A grocery store clerk.
(d) Another neighbor.

4. What does Esperanza want?
(a) A new jacket.
(b) More siblings.
(c) A new job so that she can leave Mango Street.
(d) A boyfriend to hold her.

5. What does Minerva do after her children have gone to sleep?
(a) Fight with her husband.
(b) Write poems.
(c) Cry.
(d) Drink wine.

6. 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.

7. What has Esperanza decided?
(a) “To not have babies, ever.”
(b) “To leave Mango Street and never return.”
(c) “To grow large and fat.”
(d) “To not grow up tame like the others.”

8. What can’t Esperanza’s mother do despite living in the city all her life?
(a) Read a map.
(b) Find her way to the art museum.
(c) Take the bus home from the grocery store.
(d) She doesn’t know how to take the subway train downtown.

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

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

11. How does Esperanza describe the siren archetype in movies?
(a) As pathetic, but beautiful.
(b) As blond and blue-eyed.
(c) As tall, Amazonian, and beautiful.
(d) As beautiful, cruel – and powerful.

12. Who visits Earl on a regular basis?
(a) His mother.
(b) His daughter.
(c) His wife.
(d) Different women, presumably prostitutes.

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

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

15. Where does Sally get married?
(a) In Las Vegas.
(b) In the local church.
(c) In a park.
(d) In a state that allows girls to get married before the eighth grade.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Esperanza compare Rafaela to?

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

3. Why does Esperanza like to be with Sally?

4. Who comes to visit Rachel and Lucy’s family?

5. What kind of place does Esperanza want to live in?

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