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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. Who gets Esperanza a job?
(a) Papa.
(b) Uncle Nacho.
(c) Mama.
(d) Her Aunt Lala.

2. What does Rachel believe is “good for holding babies while you are cooking”?
(a) Baby backpacks.
(b) Baby slings.
(c) Arms.
(d) Hips.

3. Who is the author of The House on Mango Street?
(a) Usula K. LeGuin.
(b) Sandra Cisneros.
(c) Harper Lee.
(d) Randy Johannson.

4. What does Esperanza have to lie about when she shows up on her first day at her new job?
(a) Where she lives.
(b) Her gender.
(c) Her age.
(d) Her ethnicity.

5. Esperanza reads that Eskimos have thirty different names for what?
(a) Clouds.
(b) Snow.
(c) Water.
(d) Fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Esperanza want to eat lunch?

2. Who walks the best in the high heels?

3. What do the girls find in this vignette?

4. How does it make Esperanza feel when the nun asked, “You live there?”

5. Who has too many kids?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Esperanza’s mama get sick?

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

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

4. Why is everyone surprised by Darius’s observations of the clouds?

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

6. Why does Esperanza think others think the people in her neighborhood are dangerous?

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

8. Why do the girls begin arguing?

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

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

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