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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. Before Aunt Lupe’s illness, she used to enjoy what activity?
(a) Jumping rope.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Running.
(d) Hiking.

2. How does Geraldo die?
(a) He has influenza.
(b) In a hit-and-run accident.
(c) He was stabbed.
(d) Alcohol poisoning.

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

4. What does Esperanza want?
(a) A boyfriend to hold her.
(b) A new job so that she can leave Mango Street.
(c) A new jacket.
(d) More siblings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Earl do for a living?

2. What are Alicia and Esperanza talking about in this vignette?

3. What, or whom, will she allow to live in her attic?

4. What does Esperanza imagine Sally enjoys doing?

5. Why is Minerva black and blue?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Geraldo?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Esperanza believe Mamacita is sad?

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

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

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