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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. Why doesn’t Esperanza want to drive to the nice neighborhoods on Sundays anymore?
(a) She’s embarrassed by how much her family wants something that they cannot have.
(b) She’s given up hope of every having her own home.
(c) She doesn’t like that her father works for the homeowners.
(d) She doesn’t like the way that the houses look.

2. How much does Esperanza pay Elenita?
(a) She does not pay Elenita anything.
(b) Five dollars.
(c) 8 dollars.
(d) 7 dollars.

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

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

5. What does Elenita tell Esperanza?
(a) That she will have 6 children.
(b) That her mama is really ill.
(c) That she will not graduate from school.
(d) That she will have a home in her heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Earl do for a living?

2. Who meets Geraldo?

3. Which adult likes to play with children?

4. Why does Esperanza find these trees so miraculous?

5. What does Aunt Lupe tell Esperanza to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Esperanza has her fortune told, and Elenita tells her that she sees a “home in the heart”. What could this mean for Esperanza’s future?

2. How does Esperanza’s perspective affect the information readers are given in this chapter?

3. Why does her Aunt Lupe tell her that writing will keep her free?

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

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

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

7. What does it mean that both Esperanza is getting noticed by boys, and that she notices them watching her?

8. Who is Geraldo?

9. How does Sally defy her parents?

10. Who is Ruthie?

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