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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many siblings does Esperanza have?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

2. Where does Esperanza want to eat lunch?
(a) The canteen at school.
(b) In her favorite teacher’s classroom.
(c) At home with her mother.
(d) At Lucy and Rachel’s house.

3. What happens at the end of their discussion?
(a) They all get in an argument and begin teasing each other.
(b) They decide to go buy some candy.
(c) They are laughing at how silly they are.
(d) They ride their bicycle around town.

4. What does Nenny begin naming during the girls’ discussion?
(a) Different words for poor.
(b) Different words for “brat”.
(c) Different types of clouds.
(d) Different types of beans.

5. What does Darius point out?
(a) Clouds that look like pillows.
(b) Four skinny sickly trees.
(c) How dry and barren everything is.
(d) The flatness of the earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. “My papa’s hair is like a broom” is an example of what?

2. Esperanza is overcome with grief at the end of this vignette, why is this?

3. Who crumples like a coat and cries?

4. How does she feel when she drives into another neighborhood of “another color”?

5. Esperanza reads that Eskimos have thirty different names for what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in this vignette?

2. Why is Esperanza embarrassed by Nenny wanting to buy the music box?

3. What does she mean by: “That is how it goes and goes”?

4. Why does Esperanza thinks that she is speaking with authority?

5. What does Esperanza’s mean in the English translation?

6. Why does Esperanza feel like a balloon tied to an anchor?

7. How does Esperanza feel when the nun is inquiring where she lives?

8. Why is Cathy’s family moving out of the neighborhood?

9. How does Esperanza try and convince her mother to allow her to eat in the canteen?

10. How does Esperanza describe her mother’s hair? What is her mother’s hair a metaphor for?

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