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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 does Esperanza believe Mamacita won’t come down from her apartment?
(a) Her baby is too sick to leave.
(b) She doesn’t like Mango Street.
(c) Esperanza believes she is afraid to speak English.
(d) She is too sick to leave.

2. What is Esperanza’s mother’s advice for her?
(a) Her advice is for Esperanza to save her money, rather than spending it on school tuition.
(b) Her advice is for Esperanza to marry young while she still has her looks.
(c) Her advice is for Esperanza to have her babies while she is young.
(d) Her advice for Esperanza is to go to school and study hard.

3. Who hits Sally?
(a) Both A and C.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her father.

4. What does one of the aunts tell Esperanza?
(a) “You will have too many children to have a job.”
(b) “You will always be Mango Street.”
(c) “Life is short. Get out of Mango Street.”
(d) “You will never finish school.”

5. When does Earl work?
(a) He does not work.
(b) At night.
(c) During the day.
(d) In the morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does she tell the school about her blue marks on her body?

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

3. What does Esperanza imagine Sally enjoys doing?

4. Who does Esperanza notice watching her when she crosses the street?

5. What do they make a clubhouse out of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does it mean that both Esperanza is getting noticed by boys, and that she notices them watching her?

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

3. How does Sally defy her parents?

4. Why does Esperanza believe Mamacita is sad?

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. 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?

10. Who is Ruthie?

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