Esperanza Rising Last Chapter

Esperanza says, “During grapes, you hate grapes. During potatoes, you hate potatoes. And during asparagus, you hate asparagus.” What does she mean by this?

• Esperanza does not like the taste of these foods.

• When it’s grape season, they work with grapes for so long that they get tired of them. The same is true with potatoes and asparagus.

At the beginning of the chapter when the women see Alfonso near their sheds, why does Esperanza think something is wrong?

• Alfonso never left the fields during the day, so Esperanza worried that he was coming with bad news about Mama’s health.

• She could hear him saying that the babies were very sick and needed the women to help.

Miguel took Esperanza's money orders so that he could get __________ home from Mexico. (Please check spelling- it will be wrong if you spell her name wrong!)

What sentence best describes the joy that Mama feels when she first sees Abuelita?

• “Mama scooted over and made Abuelita sit next to her.”

• “Abuelita and Mama uttered no words that anyone could understand. It was their own language of happy exclamations.”

Why is Miguel forced to dig ditches for the railroad company?

• He got tired of working on the train engines.

• A group of workers from Oklahoma said they would work for half the money that Miguel received, so the company gave them his job.

What is one reason why Esperanza gives the doll to Isabel?

• To chear her up.

• To prove that she is richer than Isabel.

• She wants to give Isabel something that will last a long time to show her that being Queen of May would only last one day.

• It was too dirty.

• She did not want it anymore.

Which quote shows why the workers are afraid of the strikers?

• “The strikers stayed near the road.”

• “The strike continued for days.”

• “When a guard wasn’t looking, one of the strikers picked up a rock and threw it at the woman, barely missing her head.”

When immigration officials are taking people away on buses, the author writes, “Esperanza and the other women watched the despondent faces in the (bus) windows disappear.” What does the word despondent mean?

• feeling sick

• feeling hopeless

• dirty and tired

Why does Esperanza feel sorry for the strikers who are being arrested by the immigration officials?

• They never arrested the person who threw the rock.

• Even some people who are US citizens are being unfairly kicked out of the country.

• They will be kicked out of the US.

• None of them will ever see their families again.

What did Esperanza do to help Marta after the immigration officials arrived?

• She did not give away her hiding spot when immigration officials were looking for her.

• She gave her money.

• She gave her a doll.