Reading Level: 5.4
Number Words: 30,000
Questions: 20
Point Value: 4

Esperanza Rising

1. What was the name of the ranch Esperanza lived on in Mexico?

Esperanza Ranch
El Rancho de las Rosas
Sixto Ranch
Ramona Ranch

2. After what storm did Esperanza's mother get sick?

wind storm
rainstorm
dust storm
hail storm

3. Who got Abuelita out of Mexico?

Miguel
Alfonso
Pepe
Lupe

4. When the woman came on the train what was in her wired cage?

three dogs
six cats
six red hens
two ducks

5. What was the mean striker girl's name?

Martha
Marta
Megan
Mary

6. What was Esperanza's father's name?

Sixto
Miguel
Alfonso
Juan

7. What was Esperanza's mother's name?

Hortensia
Isabel
Marta
Ramona

8. What does Miguel call Esperanza?

Sixto
Juan
Anza
Espera

9. What is Isabel's best friend's name?

Silvia
Hortensia
Alfonso
Juan

10. What are the twin babies names?

Juan and Josefina
Lupe and Pep
Frederico and Carmen
Alfonso and Hortensia

11. What did they have every Friday?

a party
funerals
a fiesta
extra chores

12. What was Alfonso's cousin's name?

Hortensia
Marta
Esperanza
Juan

13. Which striker did Esperanza find after the police took the other strikers away?

Alfonso
Marta
Lupe
Pepe

14. In Mexico, what was supposed to happen when you turn 15?
you dance
you write stories
you talk
you have a presentation party

15. Why wouldn't Esperanza and her family strike?

they were too poor
they didn't understand how to strike
they didn't want to lose their jobs
they were afraid

16. Why can't Abuelita come with Esperanza to California?

she hurt her ankle
she broke her arm
she hurt her back
she broke her ribs

17. Who wanted to marry Ramona?

Tio Marco
Alfonso
Miguel
Tio Luis

18. What was in the bag that Alfonso and Miguel watered train stops?

a dog
Papa's roses
a tree
a cat

19. Where did Miguel always want to work?

at a factory
on a farm
at the railroad
at a gas station

20. What did Abuelita tell Esperanza to do on her blanket stitching?

only do one stitch
skip every other stitch
go down and then up
go up to the mountain and down to the valley