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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. Who hits Sally?

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

3. What does Esperanza imagine Sally enjoys doing?

4. Who dies?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. How does Sally defy her parents?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Esperanza questions women’s roles in this book. Which characters does she pity? Which does she look up to? If she continues on the path of her friends and cousins, where does she think she’ll be in ten years?

Essay Topic 2

Esperanza is dissatisfied with her life, or at least her living situation. Why is she dissatisfied? What does she want? And, will she or won’t she most likely succeed?

Essay Topic 3

Esperanza is named after her great-grandmother. What happens to Esperanza’s great-grandmother? Why doesn’t Esperanza want to be named after her?

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