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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rafaela ask the girls to buy her?

2. What does Sally’s father believe beauty brings?

3. What does Sally’s husband do for a living?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Sally’s relationship like with her parents?

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

3. How does Sally defy her parents?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How are Esperanza and Minerva similar?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Coming-of-age is a major theme in this book. Who comes of age in this book? What’s indicative of this?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Lucy and Rachel’s family situation with Nenny’s and Esperanza’s. Do they seem satisfied with where they are living and the neighborhood on Mango Street?

Essay Topic 3

Sally, Esperanza’s friend, comes from a very strict religious family, but Sally rebels by dressing provocatively. What happens to Sally? How does Esperanza see this as a warning?

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