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

3. What does she tell the school about her blue marks on her body?
(a) That she’s ill.
(b) That she’s fallen.
(c) That her father is abusive.
(d) That she has a new puppy who bites her.

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

5. Who helps her disguise her wounds?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her father.
(c) Esperanza.
(d) Her mother.

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

7. Why does Esperanza believe that life is easier for Nenny?
(a) Because Nenny is beautiful.
(b) Because Nenny is naïve.
(c) Because Nenny is tall.
(d) Because Nenny is young.

8. What does Sally’s father believe beauty brings?
(a) Babies.
(b) Trouble.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Luck.

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

10. Who is the landlord of the apartment buildings?
(a) Edna, Ruthie’s mother.
(b) Joe, the baby grabber.
(c) Esperanza’s papa.
(d) Sally’s father.

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

12. Who doesn’t appreciate the trees?
(a) Carlos.
(b) Nenny.
(c) Sally.
(d) Sire.

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

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

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