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

2. Why does Esperanza need to get a job?
(a) To support her baby.
(b) To buy herself clothing.
(c) To help pay for food for her family.
(d) To pay for tuition at her Catholic high school.

3. Why will Cathy only be Esperanza’s friend until next Tuesday?
(a) She is leaving to visit her grandmother.
(b) She is moving away.
(c) She doesn’t like Esperanza very much.
(d) She is changing schools.

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

5. Who does Cathy believe she is a descendent of?
(a) The Queen of England.
(b) The US president.
(c) The Queen of France.
(d) A Russian princess.

Short Answer Questions

1. Esperanza believes that other people who wander into her neighborhood believe they will be attacked with what?

2. Who has died at the beginning of this vignette?

3. Why doesn’t Esperanza want to dance?

4. What is The House on Mango Street a collection of?

5. Who built the house that Meme lives in?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Esperanza want to eat in the canteen?

2. Who is Esperanza?

3. Why doesn’t Esperanza like her name?

4. What does Esperanza feel like her name means?

5. Why does Esperanza’s mama get sick?

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

7. Why doesn’t Esperanza want to dance?

8. How does Louie’s cousin get the Cadillac?

9. What does Esperanza get in this chapter that she’s been wanting?

10. Who encourages her to get a job?

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