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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 Rafaela leave her apartment?
(a) Her baby is sick.
(b) She doesn’t like talking to her neighbors.
(c) Her husband locks her inside.
(d) She is too ill.

2. What does Elenita tell Esperanza?
(a) That she will have 6 children.
(b) That she will have a home in her heart.
(c) That her mama is really ill.
(d) That she will not graduate from school.

3. What happened to the monkey?
(a) It ran away.
(b) It was stolen from the owners.
(c) The owners moved away and took the monkey with them.
(d) It died.

4. What happens to Esperanza while she is waiting for Sally?
(a) She is raped.
(b) She gets lost.
(c) She falls asleep and wakes up disoriented.
(d) She’s kidnapped and beaten.

5. What does Sally’s husband do for a living?
(a) He sells marshmallows.
(b) He is a janitor.
(c) He is a lawyer.
(d) He sells books.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Minerva black and blue?

3. What did Esperanza’s mother used to do?

4. Why does Esperanza find these trees so miraculous?

5. Who meets Geraldo?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Esperanza hoping to hear when she has her fortune told?

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

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

5. Why does Esperanza believe Mamacita is sad?

6. How does Esperanza’s perspective affect the information readers are given in this chapter?

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

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

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

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

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