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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruthie walk around the neighborhood?
(a) Her parrot, Billy.
(b) Her dog, Bobo.
(c) Her ferret, Bilbo.
(d) Her cat, Bono.

2. Why is Minerva black and blue?
(a) Her children beat her.
(b) She is very clumsy.
(c) Her husband beats her.
(d) She is sick with cancer.

3. Which adult likes to play with children?
(a) Gil.
(b) Edna.
(c) Sally.
(d) Ruthie.

4. What/who goes with Earl everywhere?
(a) His son.
(b) His wife.
(c) His red-tailed macaw.
(d) Two little black dogs.

5. What happens to Esperanza while she is waiting for Sally?
(a) She gets lost.
(b) She falls asleep and wakes up disoriented.
(c) She is raped.
(d) She’s kidnapped and beaten.

6. Who comes to get Sally when she’s staying with Esperanza’s family?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her mother.

7. What does Rafaela ask the girls to buy her?
(a) Magazines and books.
(b) Coconut – or sometimes – papaya juice.
(c) Birth control.
(d) Candy.

8. What is the age difference between Minerva and Esperanza?
(a) Minerva is significantly younger than Esperanza.
(b) Minerva is significantly older than Esperanza.
(c) Minerva is a little bit younger than Esperanza.
(d) Minerva is a little bit older than Esperanza.

9. Esperanza describes the color of illness as being what?
(a) Green.
(b) White.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Black.

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

11. What does Elenita tell Esperanza?
(a) That she will have a home in her heart.
(b) That her mama is really ill.
(c) That she will have 6 children.
(d) That she will not graduate from school.

12. What is Tito’s mother doing when Esperanza goes to her house?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Cleaning.
(c) Mowing the lawn.
(d) Ironing shirts.

13. Where does Earl live?
(a) With Edna and Ruthie.
(b) In Edna’s basement apartment.
(c) With Rosa Vargas.
(d) With Louie’s family.

14. What does Sally do instead of run around with the other kids in the monkey garden?
(a) She goes to the library to study.
(b) She goes shopping with her friends.
(c) She flirts with Tito and his friends.
(d) She goes inside to cook and sew.

15. Why does Esperanza like to be with Sally?
(a) Because Sally is beautiful and Esperanza wants to be like her.
(b) Because Sally is funny.
(c) Because they are friends and she finds Sally’s laugh infectious.
(d) Because Sally is older and knows more about boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of place does Esperanza want to live in?

2. How much does Esperanza pay Elenita?

3. Who dies?

4. How does Geraldo die?

5. Before Aunt Lupe’s illness, she used to enjoy what activity?

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