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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 Alicia inherit from her mother?
(a) Her hands.
(b) Her rolling pin and sleepiness.
(c) Her dresses.
(d) Her aprons.

2. Why must Alicia be the one to wake early to make the lunchbox tortillas?
(a) No one else in her family will do it.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Her mother has died and she is the oldest woman in the house.
(d) Her father told her she must.

3. What does Nenny want to buy, but Gil tells her it is not for sale?
(a) A baby doll.
(b) A music box.
(c) A shawl.
(d) A typewriter.

4. A house. What does Esperanza see that reminds her of Mexico?
(a) A cloud.
(b) A house.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A tree.

5. Whom does she describe as best friends?
(a) Carlos and Titus.
(b) Kiki and Carlos.
(c) Nenny and Kiki.
(d) Lucy and Rachel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marin do when her aunt goes to sleep?

2. Why does Esperanza believe Rosa Vargas is so upset?

3. Why does Marin live with Louie’s family?

4. What does Rachel believe is “good for holding babies while you are cooking”?

5. Who is too young to be her friend?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Esperanza afraid of at the end of this vignette?

3. Why does Esperanza write: “here there is too much sadness and not enough sky” (p.33)?

4. What is Marin, Esperanza’s neighbor, waiting for?

5. Why doesn’t Alicia want to take over her mother’s role?

6. Why doesn’t Esperanza like her name?

7. Why does Esperanza describe this day as a “good” day?

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

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

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

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