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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. When does Earl work?

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

3. What does Minerva already have?

4. Why doesn’t Sally leave her apartment?

5. Esperanza describes the color of illness as being what?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Coming-of-age is a major theme in this book. Who comes of age in this book? What’s indicative of this?

Essay Topic 2

Sally, Esperanza’s friend, comes from a very strict religious family, but Sally rebels by dressing provocatively. What happens to Sally? How does Esperanza see this as a warning?

Essay Topic 3

Esperanza is named after her great-grandmother. What happens to Esperanza’s great-grandmother? Why doesn’t Esperanza want to be named after her?

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