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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is wrong with Mamacita?
(a) She is ill with a rare disease.
(b) She has no food to eat.
(c) Her little baby is sick.
(d) She is homesick.

2. Who is Elenita?
(a) Another neighbor.
(b) Rachel’s mother.
(c) A fortune-teller.
(d) A grocery store clerk.

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

4. What happened to the monkey?
(a) It was stolen from the owners.
(b) It died.
(c) The owners moved away and took the monkey with them.
(d) It ran away.

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

6. Who listens to Esperanza’s stories?
(a) Mama.
(b) Aunt Lala.
(c) Papa.
(d) Aunt Lupe.

7. Why will Esperanza come back to Mango Street?
(a) She will never come back.
(b) She will come back for the ones she left behind.
(c) She will come back because she misses her friends.
(d) She will come back to help her family.

8. What did Esperanza’s mother used to do?
(a) Teach.
(b) Sing opera.
(c) Write.
(d) Swim.

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

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

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

12. Why does Esperanza go to the fortune-teller?
(a) She wants to know about her future house.
(b) To see if her mama gets better.
(c) She wants to know how many children she will have.
(d) To see how long she will live.

13. Where does Sally get married?
(a) In the local church.
(b) In Las Vegas.
(c) In a state that allows girls to get married before the eighth grade.
(d) In a park.

14. What does Aunt Lupe tell Esperanza to do?
(a) She tells her to be practical.
(b) She tells her to keep writing.
(c) She tells her to marry soon, while she’s still young.
(d) She tells her to keep going to school.

15. Where does she meet him?
(a) At the hospital.
(b) At the movies.
(c) At a dance.
(d) At a bar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tito’s mother doing when Esperanza goes to her house?

2. What does Sally do?

3. What are Alicia and Esperanza talking about in this vignette?

4. What does Minerva already have?

5. What does Esperanza imagine Sally enjoys doing?

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