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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 does Earl do for a living?
(a) He is a mechanic.
(b) He is a jukebox repairman.
(c) He is a lawyer.
(d) He does not work.

2. Who comes to get Sally when she’s staying with Esperanza’s family?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her father.

3. What does she tell the school about her blue marks on her body?
(a) That she’s ill.
(b) That she has a new puppy who bites her.
(c) That she’s fallen.
(d) That her father is abusive.

4. Who is Elenita?
(a) A grocery store clerk.
(b) Rachel’s mother.
(c) Another neighbor.
(d) A fortune-teller.

5. Why doesn’t Rafaela leave her apartment?
(a) Her husband locks her inside.
(b) She is too ill.
(c) She doesn’t like talking to her neighbors.
(d) Her baby is sick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives in a yellow taxicab?

2. Why is Minerva black and blue?

3. Who meets Geraldo?

4. What is Esperanza’s mother’s advice for her?

5. What does Sally do instead of run around with the other kids in the monkey garden?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Esperanza and Minerva similar?

2. 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?

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

4. Who is Ruthie?

5. Why does Esperanza believe Mamacita is sad?

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

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

8. Who is Geraldo?

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

10. Why did Marin stay with him in the emergency room?

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