Esperanza Rising Vocabulary Quiz: Chapters 8 & 9

Many families experience __________ when they do not have enough money for food and shelter.

• Poverty
• Imagery

• strikes

• poetry

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

The workers decided to go on __________ to demand better pay and safer working conditions.

• strikes

• poverty

• migration

• poetry

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The children had to __________ together to keep warm in the cold night air.

• huddle

• strike

• bruise

• clamor

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

After falling off her bike, Maria’s knee was __________ and sore.

• bruised

• accustomed

• strike

• poverty

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

The protesters’ __________ could be heard from across the city as they chanted for their rights.

• clamor

• poverty

• accustomed

• migrants

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The farmland was __________, with only a few trees scattered across the landscape.

• Sparse
• desrepation

• immigration

• strike

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

After working long hours in the fields, the workers became __________ to the hard labor.

• Accustomed
• bruised

• sparse

• desperation

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

A feeling of __________ swept over her as she realized she had lost everything.

• Desperation
• Clamor

• Huddle

• Strikes

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The __________ traveled from farm to farm, looking for seasonal work.

• Migrants
• Poverty

• Bruises

• Immigration

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

__________ laws changed in the early 20th century, allowing fewer people to enter the country.

• Immigration
• Poverty

• Poetry

• Imagery