View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Someday she says she’ll tell all of her secrets to whom?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her sister, Nenny.
(c) Her Aunt Lupe.
(d) Her best friend.

2. Why do the canteen kids get to eat lunch at school?
(a) Their mothers are not home.
(b) They can afford to buy the school lunch.
(c) They are older kids.
(d) They live too far to walk home.

3. Who is too young to be her friend?
(a) Kiki, her brother.
(b) Nenny, her younger sister.
(c) Titus, the neighbor boy.
(d) Lucy, the neighbor girl.

4. Why doesn’t Esperanza want to dance?
(a) She’s embarrassed by her school shoes.
(b) There are no good dance partners.
(c) She doesn’t know how.
(d) She feels ill.

5. Who lives below Meme in a basement apartment?
(a) Lucy and Rachel.
(b) Edna and Ruthie.
(c) Louie’s family.
(d) Joe, the baby grabber.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Alicia inherit from her mother?

3. How many days does it take Esperanza to convince her mother to allow her to eat in the canteen?

4. Who encourages her in going to the Catholic high school?

5. Esperanza is overcome with grief at the end of this vignette, why is this?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why do the girls begin arguing?

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

5. What happens in this vignette?

6. What happens to Angel Vargas?

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

8. What does Esperanza feel like her name means?

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

10. Why doesn’t Esperanza want to dance?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 662 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample