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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. How do Nenny and Esperanza resemble each other?
(a) They have the same laughter.
(b) They have the same thick hair.
(c) They are the same height.
(d) They have the same fat Popsicle lips.

2. Louie is the oldest of ___________?
(a) Ten children.
(b) Two children.
(c) A family of brothers.
(d) A family of little sisters.

3. What is Alicia afraid of?
(a) Being in charge of making the tortillas.
(b) Her younger brothers.
(c) Living without her mother.
(d) Mice, and her father.

4. What has made Esperanza’s mother sick, or so she thinks?
(a) Too many tamales.
(b) The flu.
(c) Too much dancing.
(d) Too much alcohol.

5. Where does Marin’s boyfriend live?
(a) Texas.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Puerto Rico.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wouldn’t marry, at first?

2. What does Esperanza have to lie about when she shows up on her first day at her new job?

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

4. While they are talking about hips, what else are the girls doing?

5. Why will Cathy only be Esperanza’s friend until next Tuesday?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Esperanza’s mama get sick?

3. Why doesn’t Esperanza like her name?

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

5. What happens in this vignette?

6. Why doesn’t Esperanza want to dance?

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

8. Why does Esperanza need to get a job?

9. Who encourages her to get a job?

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

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