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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. From where have the two girls just moved?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Florida.
(c) Oregon.
(d) Texas.

2. Where does Esperanza’s family go?
(a) To a party after her cousin’s baptism.
(b) To a Quinceañera.
(c) To a wedding.
(d) To a funeral.

3. Why does Marin live with Louie’s family?
(a) She is an orphan.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) Her own family is in Puerto Rico.
(d) She is homeless and has nowhere to go.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Esperanza’s new job?

2. How does she describe Nenny’s hair?

3. What do the girls find in this vignette?

4. What is the “big one’s” name?

5. In Spanish what does she feel like her name means?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happens in this vignette?

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

9. Why does Esperanza believe that the boys and girls in her neighborhood live in separate worlds?

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

(see the answer keys)

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