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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. Where does Earl live?
(a) With Louie’s family.
(b) In Edna’s basement apartment.
(c) With Edna and Ruthie.
(d) With Rosa Vargas.

2. How does Geraldo die?
(a) He has influenza.
(b) Alcohol poisoning.
(c) He was stabbed.
(d) In a hit-and-run accident.

3. Who visits Earl on a regular basis?
(a) His daughter.
(b) Different women, presumably prostitutes.
(c) His mother.
(d) His wife.

4. What isn’t Sally supposed to do due to her family’s religious beliefs?
(a) Laugh.
(b) Eat pork.
(c) Show her hair.
(d) Dance.

5. Who comes to visit Rachel and Lucy’s family?
(a) Three aunts.
(b) Their grandparents.
(c) Their older brother.
(d) Cousins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does she tell the school about her blue marks on her body?

2. Who dies?

3. What does Esperanza want?

4. Who is Elenita?

5. How has Esperanza “begun her own quiet war”?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Esperanza believe Mamacita is sad?

2. What is Esperanza hoping to hear when she has her fortune told?

3. How does Sally defy her parents?

4. Who is Ruthie?

5. Why does Esperanza feel a special kinship with the trees outside her window?

6. How does Esperanza’s perspective affect the information readers are given in this chapter?

7. Esperanza wants a nice house and wants to live on a hill, but she believes that she’ll be different than the others who do so. How does she believe that she will be different?

8. Why did Marin stay with him in the emergency room?

9. Who is Geraldo?

10. How has Esperanza begun her “own quiet war”?

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