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

2. What does Earl do for a living?
(a) He is a mechanic.
(b) He is a jukebox repairman.
(c) He does not work.
(d) He is a lawyer.

3. What or whom does Esperanza believe understands her?
(a) The clouds and sky.
(b) Sally.
(c) The four skinny trees outside her bedroom window.
(d) Sire.

4. What is the age difference between Minerva and Esperanza?
(a) Minerva is a little bit older than Esperanza.
(b) Minerva is significantly older than Esperanza.
(c) Minerva is a little bit younger than Esperanza.
(d) Minerva is significantly younger than Esperanza.

5. Why does Esperanza believe that life is easier for Nenny?
(a) Because Nenny is tall.
(b) Because Nenny is naïve.
(c) Because Nenny is beautiful.
(d) Because Nenny is young.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened to the monkey?

3. Who arrives in a yellow taxicab?

4. Where does she meet him?

5. What does Sally do instead of run around with the other kids in the monkey garden?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How are Esperanza and Minerva similar?

4. 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?

5. How does Sally defy her parents?

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

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

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

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

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

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