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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does she warn Nenny and Esperanza to stay away from?
(a) Sally’s father.
(b) Joe, the baby-grabber.
(c) Titus.
(d) Louie and his cousin.

2. Why doesn’t Esperanza want to dance?
(a) She feels ill.
(b) She doesn’t know how.
(c) There are no good dance partners.
(d) She’s embarrassed by her school shoes.

3. Who wins the First Annual Tarzan Jumping Contest?
(a) Sally.
(b) Meme.
(c) Carlos.
(d) Titus.

4. What does Alicia believe she sees?
(a) Rats.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Flies.
(d) Mice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who crumples like a coat and cries?

2. How many siblings does Esperanza have?

3. What does Kiki have hair like?

4. Esperanza believes that other people who wander into her neighborhood believe they will be attacked with what?

5. What does Alicia inherit from her mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the girls believe hips are good for?

2. Why does Esperanza thinks that she is speaking with authority?

3. How does Esperanza feel when the nun is inquiring where she lives?

4. How does Esperanza describe her mother’s hair? What is her mother’s hair a metaphor for?

5. What is Marin, Esperanza’s neighbor, waiting for?

6. What happens in this vignette?

7. How does Esperanza try and convince her mother to allow her to eat in the canteen?

8. Why is everyone surprised by Darius’s observations of the clouds?

9. What is Esperanza afraid of at the end of this vignette?

10. Why does Esperanza want to eat in the canteen?

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