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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. Who dies?
(a) Rachel and Lucy’s mother.
(b) Rachel and Lucy’s baby sister.
(c) Rachel and Lucy’s grandmother.
(d) Rachel and Lucy's cousin.

2. What is wrong with Mamacita?
(a) She is ill with a rare disease.
(b) Her little baby is sick.
(c) She has no food to eat.
(d) She is homesick.

3. Who meets Geraldo?
(a) Marin.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Sally.
(d) Esperanza.

4. Where does Sally get married?
(a) In Las Vegas.
(b) In a state that allows girls to get married before the eighth grade.
(c) In the local church.
(d) In a park.

5. Where does she meet him?
(a) At the movies.
(b) At a dance.
(c) At a bar.
(d) At the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Esperanza go to the fortune-teller?

2. What or whom does Esperanza believe understands her?

3. What does Aunt Lupe tell Esperanza to do?

4. Who does Esperanza compare Eddie Vargas to because he falls asleep under a hibiscus tree?

5. What/who goes with Earl everywhere?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Geraldo?

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

3. How does Sally defy her parents?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who is Ruthie?

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

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