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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. Whose father was it?
(a) Aunt Lupe’s father.
(b) Esperanza’s.
(c) Esperanza’s father’s father.
(d) Esperanza’s mother’s father.

2. What does she plan on doing as soon as she gets back to P.R.?
(a) Have more children.
(b) Attend university.
(c) Teach elementary school.
(d) Marry her boyfriend.

3. Why does Esperanza believe Rosa Vargas is so upset?
(a) She's tired.
(b) Her husband left her with a whole bunch of kids and no money.
(c) She’s overweight.
(d) She doesn’t like her children because they are rude.

4. Who wouldn’t marry, at first?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her great-grandmother.
(d) Her aunt.

5. Esperanza believes that other people who wander into her neighborhood believe they will be attacked with what?
(a) Machetes.
(b) Shiny knives.
(c) Guns.
(d) Fists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Esperanza comparing in her family?

2. Esperanza believes that boys and girls live in separate what?

3. What does Marin do for work to earn money?

4. How many people are in Esperanza’s immediate family?

5. What does Alicia believe she sees?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Alicia afraid of?

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

3. Why does Esperanza believe Mrs. Vargas is so overwhelmed?

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

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

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

7. Why do Nenny and Esperanza think that the house they see looks like Mexico?

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

9. Why doesn’t Esperanza like her name?

10. Why does she take a rice sandwich to school?

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