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

2. 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.

3. Who kisses Esperanza?
(a) Her boss.
(b) titus.
(c) Gil.
(d) A little old “Oriental” man who claims it is his birthday.

4. What does Marin do when her aunt goes to sleep?
(a) She cooks and makes lunches for all of the kids the following day.
(b) She sews baby clothing.
(c) Drinks tequila.
(d) She stands under the streetlights smoking and listening to the radio.

5. What happens to Angel Vargas?
(a) He is hit and killed by a car.
(b) He is playing on the roof and pretends to fly, only to fall to his death.
(c) He gets head lice and is sent home from school.
(d) He breaks his arms from jumping out of a tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. Finish the quote: “Here there is too much sadness and not enough __________.”

2. What is the “big one’s” name?

3. What happens at the end of their discussion?

4. What does Darius point out?

5. Why doesn’t Esperanza want to dance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Esperanza feel like her name means?

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

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

4. Why are they “tired of being beautiful”?

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

6. Why doesn’t Esperanza like her name?

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

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

9. Who is Esperanza?

10. What happens in this vignette?

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