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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. Before Aunt Lupe’s illness, she used to enjoy what activity?
(a) Hiking.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Jumping rope.
(d) Running.
2. What does Elenita tell Esperanza?
(a) That her mama is really ill.
(b) That she will have a home in her heart.
(c) That she will have 6 children.
(d) That she will not graduate from school.
3. What does Rafaela’s husband do on Tuesday nights?
(a) Play poker.
(b) Visit the local saloon.
(c) Play dominoes.
(d) Play basketball.
4. Who comes to visit Rachel and Lucy’s family?
(a) Their grandparents.
(b) Their older brother.
(c) Cousins.
(d) Three aunts.
5. What does one of the aunts tell Esperanza?
(a) “You will never finish school.”
(b) “You will have too many children to have a job.”
(c) “You will always be Mango Street.”
(d) “Life is short. Get out of Mango Street.”
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Esperanza compare Rafaela to?
2. Where does Esperanza want her house?
3. What does Rafaela ask the girls to buy her?
4. Who does Esperanza notice watching her when she crosses the street?
5. Who tells Esperanza, “I could have been somebody”?
Short Essay Questions
1. How has Esperanza begun her “own quiet war”?
2. Why does Esperanza believe Mamacita is sad?
3. What does it mean that both Esperanza is getting noticed by boys, and that she notices them watching her?
4. Who is Ruthie?
5. Is Sally any happier than she was living at home with her father?
6. Esperanza has her fortune told, and Elenita tells her that she sees a “home in the heart”. What could this mean for Esperanza’s future?
7. What is Sally’s relationship like with her parents?
8. 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?
9. How does the phrase “no speak English” take on two meanings at the end of this vignette?
10. One of the aunts tells Esperanza that she will always be Mango Street. What did she mean by this?
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