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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 Esperanza want to drive to the nice neighborhoods on Sundays anymore?
(a) She’s embarrassed by how much her family wants something that they cannot have.
(b) She doesn’t like the way that the houses look.
(c) She doesn’t like that her father works for the homeowners.
(d) She’s given up hope of every having her own home.

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

3. What does Rafaela’s husband do on Tuesday nights?
(a) Play dominoes.
(b) Play basketball.
(c) Visit the local saloon.
(d) Play poker.

4. What isn’t Sally supposed to do due to her family’s religious beliefs?
(a) Show her hair.
(b) Dance.
(c) Laugh.
(d) Eat pork.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the landlord of the apartment buildings?

2. What does Sally do before she goes home?

3. What does Elenita tell Esperanza?

4. What does Esperanza want?

5. Before Aunt Lupe’s illness, she used to enjoy what activity?

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

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

4. Who is Ruthie?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Sally defy her parents?

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