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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Esperanza need to get a job?
(a) To buy herself clothing.
(b) To help pay for food for her family.
(c) To support her baby.
(d) To pay for tuition at her Catholic high school.

2. Who is Esperanza named after?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her great-grandmother.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her mother.

3. How many people are in Esperanza’s immediate family?
(a) Eight.
(b) Two.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

4. Who wouldn’t marry, at first?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her great-grandmother.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her grandmother.

5. Who kisses Esperanza?
(a) titus.
(b) Gil.
(c) A little old “Oriental” man who claims it is his birthday.
(d) Her boss.

6. What is Esperanza comparing in her family?
(a) Their laughter.
(b) Their hair.
(c) Their teeth.
(d) Their feet.

7. Whom does she describe as best friends?
(a) Kiki and Carlos.
(b) Lucy and Rachel.
(c) Carlos and Titus.
(d) Nenny and Kiki.

8. What does Kiki have hair like?
(a) Quills.
(b) Fur.
(c) Ropes.
(d) Feathers.

9. Who gets Esperanza a job?
(a) Uncle Nacho.
(b) Papa.
(c) Her Aunt Lala.
(d) Mama.

10. What happens to Angel Vargas?
(a) He is hit and killed by a car.
(b) He breaks his arms from jumping out of a tree.
(c) He gets head lice and is sent home from school.
(d) He is playing on the roof and pretends to fly, only to fall to his death.

11. Why does Esperanza think that Rachel and Lucy look alike?
(a) They have the same laughter.
(b) They have the same thick hair.
(c) They are the same height.
(d) They have the same fat Popsicle lips.

12. While they are talking about hips, what else are the girls doing?
(a) Walking in high-heeled shoes.
(b) Riding their bicycles.
(c) Sitting on the front steps of Sally’s house.
(d) Jumping rope.

13. The Vargas kids are without respect for _________?
(a) People.
(b) Nature.
(c) All things living.
(d) Animals.

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

15. Where does Louie’s cousin take them on their ride in the Cadillac?
(a) Around the block.
(b) To the beach.
(c) To town.
(d) To the countryside.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does she describe Nenny’s hair?

3. How does she feel when she drives into another neighborhood of “another color”?

4. Who does Esperanza reluctantly dance with?

5. Who built the house that Meme lives in?

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