Esperanza Rising Section 4 Quiz

What did Esperanza want to do to help Mama?

• She wanted to learn about all of the different foods that were grown in the fields
• She wanted to work so she could pay Mama's bills and bring Abuelita to Mama so she could get better.
• She wanted to learn about what medicines she could give her to make her feel better.
• None of the choices

The mountains and valleys of the blanket refers to...

• the colors of the blanket.
• the ups and downs of Esperanza's life.
• how much she missed Papa.
• all of the above.

What job does Esperanza take to earn money?

• cut potato eyes
• tie grapes
• sort the potatoes
• shell almonds

What does Isabel have that Esperanza wants?

• Isabel has nothing, but she also had everything.
• yarn doll
• opportunity to go to school
• none of the answers

What did Esperanza do at night when she went to bed?

• She said her prayers.
• She talked to Mama on her cell phone.
• She wrote letters to Abuelita.
• She cried herself to sleep.

Mama gets so sick that she ______.

• has to stay home
• dies
• has to go to the hospital
• has to go back to Mexico

Esperanza starts working so she can ________.

• send Mama back to Mexico
• bring Abuelita to see Mama
• pay for mama's treatments
• send Hortensia back to Mexico

Marta's aunt said there was talk of _____ in the spring, and of harming people who continued to ____.

• strike, work
• storms, protest
• drought, work
• strike, be lazy

Esperanza brought Mama _____.

• Abuelita's blanket and a rock for Christmas
• stories about cutting potato eyes
• a doll she and Isabel had made
• the remains of the rose bushes

Hortensia put _____ on Esperanza's hands, which were cut and swollen from working.

• grape jelly
• lotion
• mashed potatoes
• avocados