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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: "Marin".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where have the two girls just moved?
(a) Oregon.
(b) Arizona.
(c) Texas.
(d) Florida.

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

3. What does Marin do when her aunt goes to sleep?
(a) She stands under the streetlights smoking and listening to the radio.
(b) Drinks tequila.
(c) She cooks and makes lunches for all of the kids the following day.
(d) She sews baby clothing.

4. Who is too young to be her friend?
(a) Titus, the neighbor boy.
(b) Lucy, the neighbor girl.
(c) Kiki, her brother.
(d) Nenny, her younger sister.

5. At the end of this vignette she uses a metaphor to compare herself to a what?
(a) A rushing river.
(b) An anchor.
(c) A red balloon.
(d) A giraffe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Nenny and Esperanza resemble each other?

2. Who is Esperanza named after?

3. What is Esperanza comparing in her family?

4. What does Nenny want to buy, but Gil tells her it is not for sale?

5. Someday she says she’ll tell all of her secrets to whom?

(see the answer key)

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