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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does she meet him?
(a) At a bar.
(b) At the movies.
(c) At the hospital.
(d) At a dance.

3. What does Earl do for a living?
(a) He does not work.
(b) He is a lawyer.
(c) He is a jukebox repairman.
(d) He is a mechanic.

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

5. Who meets Geraldo?
(a) Sally.
(b) Esperanza.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Marin.

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

7. Where does Earl live?
(a) With Edna and Ruthie.
(b) In Edna’s basement apartment.
(c) With Louie’s family.
(d) With Rosa Vargas.

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

9. Who does Esperanza compare Rafaela to?
(a) Rapunzel.
(b) Sally.
(c) Cinderella.
(d) Sleeping Beauty.

10. Why doesn’t Sally leave her apartment?
(a) She is ill.
(b) She has no money to buy goods.
(c) She’s depressed and homesick.
(d) She’s afraid to do so without her husband’s permission.

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

12. What does Rafaela’s husband do on Tuesday nights?
(a) Play basketball.
(b) Play poker.
(c) Visit the local saloon.
(d) Play dominoes.

13. Who tells Esperanza, “I could have been somebody”?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her Aunt Lupe.
(d) Sally.

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

15. Who comes to visit Rachel and Lucy’s family?
(a) Their grandparents.
(b) Their older brother.
(c) Three aunts.
(d) Cousins.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who hits Sally?

2. Why doesn’t Rafaela leave her apartment?

3. Who dies?

4. What does Rafaela ask the girls to buy her?

5. What does Esperanza promise to never forget?

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