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

2. Esperanza believes that boys and girls live in separate what?
(a) She does not believe that there are that many differences between boys and girls.
(b) Worlds.
(c) Quarters.
(d) Times.

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

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

5. Darius believes that one cloud looks like __________?
(a) An eagle.
(b) A flag.
(c) A cross.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who drives up in a great big yellow Cadillac?

2. What does Esperanza have to lie about when she shows up on her first day at her new job?

3. Where does Louie’s cousin take them on their ride in the Cadillac?

4. What did Esperanza’s family buy from Gil’s Furniture?

5. Who is the author of The House on Mango Street?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Esperanza get in this chapter that she’s been wanting?

3. Why does Esperanza think others think the people in her neighborhood are dangerous?

4. What does Esperanza’s mean in the English translation?

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

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

7. Who encourages her to get a job?

8. Who is Esperanza?

9. Why is Cathy’s family moving out of the neighborhood?

10. Why do the girls begin arguing?

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