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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. Which adult likes to play with children?
(a) Ruthie.
(b) Gil.
(c) Sally.
(d) Edna.

2. What point of view is The House on Mango Street written?
(a) Second.
(b) First.
(c) Third – limited.
(d) Third – omniscient.

3. What does Esperanza want?
(a) A boyfriend to hold her.
(b) A new jacket.
(c) A new job so that she can leave Mango Street.
(d) More siblings.

4. What are Alicia and Esperanza talking about in this vignette?
(a) They are talking about boys they like at school.
(b) They are planning a plot to run away from home.
(c) They are talking about how many children they should have.
(d) Esperanza wants a home that she’s proud of, a home that is far away from Mango Street.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the monkey?

2. Who doesn’t appreciate the trees?

3. What does Sally do before she goes home?

4. Why doesn’t Sally leave her apartment?

5. Who does Esperanza compare Rafaela to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Esperanza and Minerva similar?

2. Why does her Aunt Lupe tell her that writing will keep her free?

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

4. What does it mean that both Esperanza is getting noticed by boys, and that she notices them watching her?

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

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

7. Why isn’t Rafaela allowed to leave her apartment?

8. Why does Esperanza say she’ll allow “bums in the attic”?

9. How does Sally defy her parents?

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

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