Esperanza Rising Quiz: Sections 9-13

1. When Esperanza starts working with the crops, what is her first job?

• Picking asparagus
• Cutting potato eyes
• Peeling onions
• Planting peach trees

2. Esperanza is trying to raise money to pay her mother’s medical bills. What else is she saving for?

• To go to school
• To return to live at El Rancho de las Rosas
• To buy food for the children of a nearby camp
• To bring Abuelita to the camp sooner

Why can't Mama come home from the hospital yet?

• Esperanza can't pay the bills

• They want Mama to go back to Mexico

• Mama now has pneumonia

• Mama died

3. Esperanza buys a piñata and fills it with caramels. She ends up giving it to children who are hungry, but for whom had she originally bought it?

• Her mother
• Miguel

• herself

• Isabel

4. When Miguel and Esperanza drop off Marta at the farm where she’s staying, what does she warn them about?

• During asparagus season, the strikers will try to shut down the fields, sheds, and railroads
• Tìo Luis knows where Esperanza’s family is living
• Esperanza’s farm will soon have no need for workers
• A dust storm is approaching
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What do the strikers do to make work more difficult? (mark all that apply)

• Put broken glass in the bins

• Put snakes in the bins

• Put rats in the bins

• Put candy in the bins

5. Buses come to round up strikers and take them away. Where are they taking them?

Why wasn't Isabel chosen as the Queen of May?

• She didn't have the highest marks

• She's Mexican

• She didn't want to do it

• She was the Queen in April

6. What does Esperanza give to Isabel after Isabel is unfairly not chosen to be Queen of the May?

• The doll here Papa had given her
• The money she's saved

• A yarn doll that they made together

• The blanket she was crocheting

7. Why does Miguel steal Esperanza’s money?

• To return to Mexico to bring Abuelita to the camp
• To bribe a manager to give him back his job at the railroad
• To run away to a nicer camp
• To buy a farm of his own