2. How has Esperanza “begun her own quiet war”?
(a) By defying her parents’ desires.
(b) By refusing to do what her teachers tell her to do.
(c) By befriending only girls.
(d) By challenging gender expectations and roles.

3. Who comes to visit Rachel and Lucy’s family?
(a) Three aunts.
(b) Their grandparents.
(c) Cousins.
(d) Their older brother.

4. Who does Esperanza compare Rafaela to?
(a) Sally.
(b) Sleeping Beauty.
(c) Cinderella.
(d) Rapunzel.

5. Who doesn’t appreciate the trees?
(a) Sire.
(b) Nenny.
(c) Carlos.
(d) Sally.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Esperanza imagine Sally enjoys doing?

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

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

4. What isn’t Sally supposed to do due to her family’s religious beliefs?

5. What does Sally do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Esperanza’s father call Sire a punk?

2. How does Sally defy her parents?

3. How are Esperanza and Minerva similar?

4. How has Esperanza begun her “own quiet war”?

5. Why does Esperanza say she’ll allow “bums in the attic”?

6. 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?

7. How does the phrase “no speak English” take on two meanings at the end of this vignette?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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