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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 Rafaela’s husband afraid of?
(a) He is afraid that she will spend all of his money.
(b) He is afraid that she will go to the police for help.
(c) He is afraid that she will run away because she is too beautiful to look at.
(d) He is afraid that she will get lost.

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

3. What happens to Esperanza while she is waiting for Sally?
(a) She gets lost.
(b) She is raped.
(c) She’s kidnapped and beaten.
(d) She falls asleep and wakes up disoriented.

4. Where does Sally get married?
(a) In a state that allows girls to get married before the eighth grade.
(b) In the local church.
(c) In a park.
(d) In Las Vegas.

5. What does Esperanza promise to never forget?
(a) Who she is or where she came from.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Angel Vargas.
(d) Sally's sadness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Esperanza notice watching her when she crosses the street?

2. What color is her house on Mango Street?

3. What does Aunt Lupe tell Esperanza to do?

4. What or whom does Esperanza believe understands her?

5. Who comes to visit Rachel and Lucy’s family?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Ruthie?

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

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

4. How are Esperanza and Minerva similar?

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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