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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. Why doesn’t Rafaela leave her apartment?
(a) Her husband locks her inside.
(b) Her baby is sick.
(c) She doesn’t like talking to her neighbors.
(d) She is too ill.

2. What does Aunt Lupe tell Esperanza to do?
(a) She tells her to be practical.
(b) She tells her to keep writing.
(c) She tells her to marry soon, while she’s still young.
(d) She tells her to keep going to school.

3. Why does Esperanza like to be with Sally?
(a) Because they are friends and she finds Sally’s laugh infectious.
(b) Because Sally is older and knows more about boys.
(c) Because Sally is funny.
(d) Because Sally is beautiful and Esperanza wants to be like her.

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. What, or whom, will she allow to live in her attic?
(a) Cats.
(b) Rats.
(c) Bums.
(d) Old ladies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elenita tell Esperanza?

2. What does Sally do before she goes home?

3. Why does Esperanza believe Mamacita won’t come down from her apartment?

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

5. What does Sally do?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. How are Esperanza and Minerva similar?

4. Why can’t Esperanza, her mother, and other neighbors and kids agree on what Earl’s “wife” looks like?

5. Why is Esperanza’s Aunt Lupe an important person to her?

6. Why does Esperanza believe Mamacita is sad?

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

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

9. Who is Ruthie?

10. How does Sally defy her parents?

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