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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where have the two girls just moved?

2. What does Kiki have hair like?

3. What happens to Angel Vargas?

4. What has made Esperanza’s mother sick, or so she thinks?

5. What do the canteen kids where around their necks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Esperanza feel like her name means?

2. Who encourages her to get a job?

3. Why does Esperanza think others think the people in her neighborhood are dangerous?

4. Why does Esperanza believe Mrs. Vargas is so overwhelmed?

5. Why do Nenny and Esperanza think that the house they see looks like Mexico?

6. Why does Esperanza thinks that she is speaking with authority?

7. What does Esperanza get in this chapter that she’s been wanting?

8. What does Esperanza’s mean in the English translation?

9. Why are they “tired of being beautiful”?

10. Why does she take a rice sandwich to school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In many of the vignettes, Esperanza is spoken down to or mistreated because of how poor her family is and her Hispanic ethnicity. How does she respond to the condescension? Does she understand it is happening? If so, what actions of her are indicative of this?

Essay Topic 2

Esperanza’s mother had many dreams of her own. What prevented her from following those dreams? What does she want for Esperanza?

Essay Topic 3

What motifs reoccur in multiple vignettes? What do they represent? How are they used?

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