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

2. 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.

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

4. What does Rafaela’s husband do on Tuesday nights?
(a) Visit the local saloon.
(b) Play basketball.
(c) Play poker.
(d) Play dominoes.

5. What color is her house on Mango Street?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) White.
(d) Yellow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Esperanza describes the color of illness as being what?

2. Who visits Earl on a regular basis?

3. What is the age difference between Minerva and Esperanza?

4. What point of view is The House on Mango Street written?

5. When does Earl work?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why isn’t Rafaela allowed to leave her apartment?

2. How does Sally defy her parents?

3. Why can’t Esperanza, her mother, and other neighbors and kids agree on what Earl’s “wife” looks like?

4. Esperanza wants a nice house and wants to live on a hill, but she believes that she’ll be different than the others who do so. How does she believe that she will be different?

5. How are Esperanza and Minerva similar?

6. One of the aunts tells Esperanza that she will always be Mango Street. What did she mean by this?

7. What is Esperanza hoping to hear when she has her fortune told?

8. Why does Esperanza feel a special kinship with the trees outside her window?

9. Why is Esperanza’s Aunt Lupe an important person to her?

10. Is Sally any happier than she was living at home with her father?

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