Cantaloupes
Where is the camp they go to?
California
Where does this chapter take place?
California
What convinces Esperanza to go to the jamaica?
Josefina is making almond flan.
What is the name of the sickness Mama gets?
Valley Fever
Why did Esperanza get a job?
So she could get money to pay her mom's hospital bills and bring Abuelita to the United States.
Who is mean to Esperanza?
Marta
What is Esperanza's camp job?
Sweeping the wooden platform every afternoon.
What is the name of of the person Esperanza and her Mama pray to?
Our Lady of Guadalupe
What does Esperanza give to the babies that makes them sick?
Raw Plums
Why is Mama depressed?
She is sad because she lost her home and husband, and Abuelita is stuck in Mexico.
What fruit do they stop the truck to grab?
Cantaloupe
Does Miguel get the job he wants?
No
How did Miguel and Alfonso recover the roses?
They dug up the roots at home and watered the roots at every train stop.
Where was Mama, Hortensia, and Josefina during the dust storm?
How long is Esperanza working on the potato eyes.
3 weeks
Who are the people who greet them at the train?
Juan, Josefina, Isabel, and the Twins
What was the reason they moved to America (other than the house burning down)?
Because Miguel and his family planned to move there for work. And to get revenge on Tio Luis by pretending to accept his proposal.
Esperanza feels guilty talking about her old life and riches after hearing about Marta. How is this different from how she acted earlier in the book?
She is realizing that many people are/were less fortunate than her and had to go through hardships she did not. And that money is not everything.
Who is Chiquita?
Isabel's Kitten
Why did Esperanza help Isabel make a doll for Silvia?
Silvia had never had a doll before.
What are the names of the baby twins?
Lupe and Pepe
Whose tent is Esperanza and Mama's tent next to?
Juan and Josefina
How much money do the cotton pickers in the migrant camps (Where Marta and her friends live) get per pound of cotton? What wage do they want to get per pound of cotton?
Currently get 7 cents a pound.
Want 10 cents a pound.
Which direction (north, east, south, west) did the dust storm come from?
East
How many people gathered in the shed where they cut potato eyes?