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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 bird does Esperanza compare Sally’s hair to?
(a) A raven.
(b) An eagle.
(c) A dove.
(d) A peacock.

2. Why is Minerva black and blue?
(a) She is very clumsy.
(b) She is sick with cancer.
(c) Her husband beats her.
(d) Her children beat her.

3. What can’t Esperanza’s mother do despite living in the city all her life?
(a) Read a map.
(b) Take the bus home from the grocery store.
(c) She doesn’t know how to take the subway train downtown.
(d) Find her way to the art museum.

4. Before Aunt Lupe’s illness, she used to enjoy what activity?
(a) Swimming.
(b) Running.
(c) Hiking.
(d) Jumping rope.

5. What does Minerva already have?
(a) Wrinkles.
(b) Two kids and a husband, who left.
(c) A house.
(d) A college degree.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Geraldo die?

2. Where does Earl live?

3. Why will Esperanza come back to Mango Street?

4. What is Esperanza’s mother’s advice for her?

5. Who tells Esperanza, “I could have been somebody”?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Esperanza believe Mamacita is sad?

3. One of the aunts tells Esperanza that she will always be Mango Street. What did she mean by this?

4. Who is Geraldo?

5. How are Esperanza and Minerva similar?

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

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

8. Why does Esperanza’s father call Sire a punk?

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

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

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