Chapters 1-5
Chapters 6-12
Short-Answers
Speed Round
100

What happens every year on El Rancho

de las Rosas, the day after

the grape harvest. 

Esperanza's Birthday 

100

On the first day of work in

the sheds with Hortensia and

Josefina, Esperanza learns:

Where potatoes

come from.

100

How does Mama begin to look differently after being in the camp for a few weeks? 

Hair in braids, she seemed shorter, not herself.

100

Who taught Esperanza how to sweep?

Miguel 

200

Mama shakes Esperanza awake

in the middle of the night.

The house is on fire. 

200

How does Hortensia

treat Esperanza’s cut

and swollen hands?

With mashed avocados.

200

Why was it important for Esperanza to go to the jamaica?

To face everybody after she was so embarrassed in front of them.

200

Why did white Americans treat Mexicans differently

They think they’re uneducated, good for only manual labor, dirty, poor, unskilled

300

On the train ride from

Zacatecas, Mama

gives it to the little peasant girl.

A yarn doll. 

300

When Miguel leaves the

camp in the middle of the

night, what does he steal?

Esperanza’s money orders.

300

What did the strikers do to try to slow down the workers or hurt them?  

Put snakes, a rat, razor blades, and shards of glass in the crates of asparagus

300

Why did police and immigration officers put those striking onto a bus?  

To deport them to Mexico, they’re causing problems for the government

400

Why Marta calls Esperanza

“Cinderella”?

Esperanza does not know

how to sweep the platform.

400

Miguel retrieves

Abuelita and brings

her to America because ___________.

He knows that Esperanza

and Mama need her.

400

Why did Abuelita and Esperanza knit their hairs into the blanket?

It symbolized their love and good wishes. The women will never be separated again. 

400

Why does Marta want everyone in the camp to strike so badly?

To make more money and get better living conditions.

500

In “Las Ciruelas”,

Esperanza is worried

about her family.

There is a terrible

dust storm.

500

Who is the woman with the hens and why is she important?

Carmen is important because she is the first person to teach Esperanza that having riches is not the only thing that matters. She is rich in love and happiness. 

500

“Didn’t I tell you that Papa’s heart would find us wherever we go?” What does Mama mean by this?

Alfonso and Miguel give them a gift of rose bush shoots that they brought from Mexico. Mama makes this statement in reference to Abuelita’s belief that roses contain memories in their rosehips.

500

In the last chapter, Esperanza tells Abuelita about all that has happened within the past year.

When she tells the story, she does not use the names of months or holidays to measure time. What does she use instead? Why?

Esperanza recalls time in spans of fruits and vegetables, and by what needed to be done to the land. This is because Esperanza has become a field worker, and her life now revolves around the harvest seasons of different crops throughout the year.

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