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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Esperanza promise to never forget?
(a) Her grandfather.
(b) Who she is or where she came from.
(c) Angel Vargas.
(d) Sally's sadness.

2. Why does Esperanza find these trees so miraculous?
(a) They have exquisite flowers.
(b) They have massive branches.
(c) They are very tall.
(d) They are growing well in a patch of a neighborhood with little to sustain them.

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

4. How does Geraldo die?
(a) Alcohol poisoning.
(b) In a hit-and-run accident.
(c) He has influenza.
(d) He was stabbed.

5. Why will Esperanza come back to Mango Street?
(a) She will come back because she misses her friends.
(b) She will come back to help her family.
(c) She will come back for the ones she left behind.
(d) She will never come back.

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

7. Where does Geraldo work?
(a) In a restaurant.
(b) At the movie theatre.
(c) At the hospital.
(d) At the fair.

8. What isn’t Sally supposed to do due to her family’s religious beliefs?
(a) Dance.
(b) Eat pork.
(c) Laugh.
(d) Show her hair.

9. What is wrong with Mamacita?
(a) She has no food to eat.
(b) She is homesick.
(c) She is ill with a rare disease.
(d) Her little baby is sick.

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

11. Which adult likes to play with children?
(a) Gil.
(b) Sally.
(c) Edna.
(d) Ruthie.

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

13. Who comes to get Sally when she’s staying with Esperanza’s family?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her brother.

14. 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.

15. What does Sally do?
(a) She quits school.
(b) She runs away.
(c) She gets a job.
(d) She gets married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ruthie ask the girls to buy her at the grocery store?

2. What point of view is The House on Mango Street written?

3. Where does Earl live?

4. What do they make a clubhouse out of?

5. Where does Esperanza want her house?

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