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Question 1: Where does Esperanza want to work?
Answer:
In the Sheds
Question 2: What is one clue why the story is named that Esperanza Rising?
Answer:
When Esperanza is in the field and she lays down and tries to feel the earth heartbeat, she feels as if she is floating above the earth surface.
Question 3: How did Esperansa do when she was making the dinner?
Answer:
She burnt the beans
Question 4: Who does Esperanza meet that she doesn't like?
Answer:
Marta from another camp
Question 5: When Esperanza tries to sweep the platform, what happens?
Answer:
Since Esperanza has never cleaned anything in her entire life, she humiliates herself when she tries cleaning.
Question 6: What are Esperanza's two jobs?
Answer:
Esperanza has to take care of Lupe and Pepe, the two twins, and she has to sweep the platform.Sweeping the platform will take a little bit of money off of the rent.
Question 7: What does Alfonso and Miguel make in the backyard of the cabin?
Answer:
A statue of Our Lady surrounded with roses from El Rancho de la Rosas. Also made with a washtub cut in half.
Question 8: What did Esperanza do when she found out the babies were sick?
Answer:
She gave them rice water
Question 9: What type of storm occurred in the book?
Answer:
Dust storm
Question 10: Why couldn't a woman live alone in the camp?
Answer:
A woman couldn't live alone in the camp because a man needed to be at the head of the household
Question 11: Why is Mama going to pray for Esperanza?
Answer:
Stated at the end of chapter 7, it says that she would stay strong even when times get tough.
Question 12: What did Esperanza feed the babies that made them sick?
Answer:
Plums
Question 13: What happens when you get this disease?
Answer:
You can get a s Small version of it and your body overcomes it or you can get a severe version of it and you will probably die. It takes six months to fully recover if you survive.
Question 14: What does Josephina look like?
Answer:
Round and fairer skin
Question 15: Who teaches Anza to sweep?
Answer:
Miguel
Question 16: What makes Mama sicker?
Answer:
Sadness
Question 17: How do the train rides go?
Answer:
Mexico - Los Angeles - California
Question 18: Why is Mama pale?
Answer:
She has valley fever and is always sleeping
Question 19: Why does Isabel get nervous when Esperanza can't clean?
Answer:
Isabel goes to school next week and Esperanza can't clean the babies diapers.
Question 20: Who is Isabel?
Answer:
Isabel is Miguel's cousin. She is eight years old. According to the story, the author compares her to a small deer.
Question 21: What is a arroya?
Answer:
A silver line of water from an unknown river
Question 22: What is Flan do almenora?
Answer:
Almond Flan
Question 23: What is the cat that Isabel took home named?
Answer:
Chiquita
Question 24: What is Agua de Jamica?
Answer:
Hibiscus Flower Water Punch
Question 25: What gender is Lupe?
Answer:
Girl
Question 26: Why does Marta abuse the animal?
Answer:
Marta thinks it is unfair because she isn't rich and doesn't have the privileges that rich people have.
Question 27: What gender is Pepe?
Answer:
Boy Question 28: Why does Isabel ask Esperanza if she is going to the jamica instead of assuming that she's going?
Answer:
When Esperanza tried to sweep, she failed and she was embarrassed because the whole camp saw