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

2. Who doesn’t appreciate the trees?
(a) Carlos.
(b) Sire.
(c) Nenny.
(d) Sally.

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

4. Who comes to visit Rachel and Lucy’s family?
(a) Their grandparents.
(b) Cousins.
(c) Three aunts.
(d) Their older brother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Esperanza imagine Sally enjoys doing?

2. Who dies?

3. Who is the landlord of the apartment buildings?

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

5. Why does Esperanza like to be with Sally?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Esperanza believe Mamacita is sad?

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

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

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

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

6. How does Sally defy her parents?

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

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

9. How are Esperanza and Minerva similar?

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

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