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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. What does Esperanza promise to never forget?
(a) Her grandfather.
(b) Sally's sadness.
(c) Angel Vargas.
(d) Who she is or where she came from.

2. Where does Esperanza want her house?
(a) In a valley.
(b) On Mango Street.
(c) Up on a hill.
(d) By the river.

3. What does Sally’s father believe beauty brings?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Babies.
(c) Luck.
(d) Trouble.

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

5. How has Esperanza “begun her own quiet war”?
(a) By defying her parents’ desires.
(b) By befriending only girls.
(c) By challenging gender expectations and roles.
(d) By refusing to do what her teachers tell her to do.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Minerva black and blue?

2. Who is the landlord of the apartment buildings?

3. What does Earl do for a living?

4. What is wrong with Mamacita?

5. Why does Esperanza go to the fortune-teller?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Sally defy her parents?

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

4. Why does Esperanza believe Mamacita is sad?

5. What is Sally’s relationship like with her parents?

6. Is Sally any happier than she was living at home with her father?

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

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

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

10. Who is Ruthie?

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