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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 33: "Minerva Writes Poems".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does she plan on doing as soon as she gets back to P.R.?
(a) Marry her boyfriend.
(b) Have more children.
(c) Attend university.
(d) Teach elementary school.

2. What does Minerva do after her children have gone to sleep?
(a) Fight with her husband.
(b) Drink wine.
(c) Cry.
(d) Write poems.

3. Who crumples like a coat and cries?
(a) Esperanza’s mama.
(b) Esperanza.
(c) Esperanza’s grandfather.
(d) Esperanza’s papa.

4. Esperanza is overcome with grief at the end of this vignette, why is this?
(a) She hates funerals and does not want to go.
(b) She thinks of her own father dying.
(c) She thinks of dying herself.
(d) She misses her abuelito.

5. Where does Marin’s boyfriend live?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Puerto Rico.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Minerva black and blue?

2. Whose father was it?

3. What is the age difference between Minerva and Esperanza?

4. Why are Louie’s parents sending Marin back to P.R. next year?

5. What does Marin do when her aunt goes to sleep?

(see the answer key)

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