WorksheetsEsperanza Rising Quiz - Background info, Preface, & Chapter 1-4
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 33mins
What does it mean by "she swallowed her laughter?"
She laughed so hard she wet herself.
That she was choking on food.
She wanted to laugh but stopped herself.
She was eating a food called laughter.
In the chapter called Las Uvas (Grapes), where is our setting?
A big city in New Mexico, USA
A ranch in Mexico
Farm in California
Plantation in South Carolina
What were the crops that Esperanza's father grew?
Grapes
Carrots
Corn and Onions
Strawberries
What is a quinceanera?
A sweet 16 birthday party
Party for a girl's 15th birthday
A baptism
Celebrating 21st birthday
A boy's 13th birthday party
The quote "there is no rose without thorns" is a proverb, what does it mean?
Why did Abuelita stitch hair into her blanket?
What happened to Esperanza's father at the end of Las Uvas?
The funeral lasted for (a) days.
Which vocabulary word means "tent cities"?
encampment
scythe
tendril
resurgence
What happened to Esperanza's home?
Caught fire during a lightning storm
Burnt down by uncle
Tornado destroyed everything
Nothing happened and everything is just fine
Which sentence best shows that everyone respects abuelita?
“When Abuelita walked into a room, everyone scrambled to make her comfortable.”
“Abuelita might host a group of ladies for a formal tea in the afternoon, then after they had gone, be found wandering barefoot in the grapes, with a book in her hand, quoting poetry to the birds.”
“But Esperanza loved her more for her capricious ways than for her propriety.”
“Esperanza’s grandmother, whom everyone called Abuelita, lived with them and was a smaller, older, more wrinkled version of Mama.”
Tio Luis and Tio Marco deliver some bad news to Esperanza’s family. The text states, “They never spoke to her, played or even teased her. In fact, they acted like she didn’t exist at all.” What is the purpose of this detail?
It shows why Esperanza never talks to anyone in her family.
It shows why Esperanza does not like her father.
It shows why Esperanza is confident that Tio Luis and Tio Marco will save her father.
It shows why Esperanza hates Tio Luis and Tio Marco.
What did Mama offer the little girl on the train?
Nothing, absolutely nothing
a yarn doll
Esperanza's doll from her father
Tortillas
What example of figurative language is this?
"It gives us the grapes and then they welcome us." He gently touched a wild tendril that reached into the row, as if it had been waiting to shake his hand. Which type of figurative language does this line contain?
personification
metaphor
repetition
similie
