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WorksheetsEsperanza Rising CH 10, prt 1
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 10mins
Match what the family members did to help mama
Irene and Melina
Watch the babies after checking on mama
Alfonso and Juan
put more layers of newspaper on the wall
Isabel
drew pictures to hang on the wall
Esperanza
fed mama and sponged her with cool water
What type of figurative language is: the dust had found its way into the valise "as it had found its way into Mama's lungs." pg 159.
Alliteration
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
What type of figurative langugae is it when Esperanza compares Mama being sick to the valley of her crocheting?
Personification
Idiom
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Esperanza doesn't want Mama to go to the hospital because she thinks that is where people go to (a)
Why does Hortensia say Mama is depressed?
She lost her husband
She lost her home
She is separated from her mother
All the above
Miguel says to Esperanza that if she does a good job cutting potato eyes, they will hire her (a) and if she does that well, they will hire her (b) .
How does Esperanza keep warm on her way to work?
drink several cups of hot tea in a pottery mug
heat a brick in the over and wrap it in newspaper
use a crochet blank that Isabel made for her
huddle tightly with Hortensia and Josefina
Josefina tells Esperanza the bosses won't care about her age as long as ....
she promises to come everyday
she hides her face
she is a hard work
she doesn't tell anyone
What do the immigration authorities do with people who cause problems?
check their papers and send them back to Mexico
send them to a different camp
ask them many questions and the send them to jail
tell them to stop or they will call the police
The people who continue to work might get (a) by Marta and her friends.
Esperanza starts working so she can ________.
bring Mama back to Mexico
bring Abuelita to see Mama
bring Tio Luis to see Mama
bring Hortensia back to Mexico
