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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 is the age difference between Minerva and Esperanza?
(a) Minerva is a little bit older than Esperanza.
(b) Minerva is significantly older than Esperanza.
(c) Minerva is significantly younger than Esperanza.
(d) Minerva is a little bit younger than Esperanza.

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

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

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

5. Who does Esperanza compare Eddie Vargas to because he falls asleep under a hibiscus tree?
(a) Prince Charming.
(b) Rumpelstiltskin.
(c) Rip Van Winkle.
(d) Sleeping Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn’t Rafaela leave her apartment?

2. What does Minerva already have?

3. What/who goes with Earl everywhere?

4. Why does Esperanza believe that life is easier for Nenny?

5. Esperanza describes the color of illness as being what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sally defy her parents?

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

3. Why does Esperanza believe Mamacita is sad?

4. How does the phrase “no speak English” take on two meanings at the end of this vignette?

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

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

7. Who is Ruthie?

8. How are Esperanza and Minerva similar?

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

10. 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?

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