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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do they make a clubhouse out of?
(a) An old blue pickup.
(b) Vine overgrowth.
(c) An apple tree.
(d) A shed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does Ruthie walk around the neighborhood?
(a) Her cat, Bono.
(b) Her parrot, Billy.
(c) Her ferret, Bilbo.
(d) Her dog, Bobo.

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

13. What point of view is The House on Mango Street written?
(a) Third – omniscient.
(b) Third – limited.
(c) First.
(d) Second.

14. What is Rafaela’s husband afraid of?
(a) He is afraid that she will run away because she is too beautiful to look at.
(b) He is afraid that she will go to the police for help.
(c) He is afraid that she will spend all of his money.
(d) He is afraid that she will get lost.

15. What does one of the aunts tell Esperanza?
(a) “You will have too many children to have a job.”
(b) “You will always be Mango Street.”
(c) “You will never finish school.”
(d) “Life is short. Get out of Mango Street.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Esperanza’s papa call Sire?

2. What has Esperanza decided?

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

4. What, or whom, will she allow to live in her attic?

5. What is the age difference between Minerva and Esperanza?

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