When I Was Puerto Rican Quizzes

When I Was Puerto Rican Quiz 1

1 What fruit does Esmeralda see in the supermarket?
Pear

Apple

Guava

Mango
2 What genre is When I Was Puerto Rican?
Memoir

Biography

Historical Fiction

Fiction
3 What do the guava's symbolize for Esmeralda?
When her father and mother were happy together

Her mother

Her childhood in Puerto Rico

Fertility
4 What is a jíbaro?
An unmarried woman

A Puerto Rican migrant

A rural Puerto Rican

A country poet
5 What is Esmeralda's nickname?
Negi

Esme

Delsa

Moni
6 What does Esmeralda compare her family's house to?
A wooden box

An oasis

A cage

A lard can
7 What happens to Esmeralda while she's helping Pablo with the house?
She falls and cuts her hand

She gets in trouble for not helping

Termites crawl all over her

She gets bit by a snake
8 What does Esmeralda want to be when she's little?
A poet

An actress

A jíbara

A cartographer
9 What does the phrase, "someone is coming to steal your lap" mean?
You're going to have a younger sibling

Watch your back

Someone's fallen in love with you

Pay attention
10 "Their fights sputtered into our lives like water on a hot skillet" is an example of:
Irony

Simile

Alliteration

Metaphor
11 Which is NOT a reason that Pablo and Ramona fight?
Pablo not helping take care of the children

Pablo's disappearances

Pablo's infidelity

Money
12 How does Esmeralda feel when she finds out about her half-sister Margie?
Sad that she didn't know about her before

She wants to play with her

Jealous

Confused about why Pablo has another daughter with someone else
13 Esmeralda is the ______ sibling
twin

middle

oldest

youngest
14 How do women talk about men in Macún?
With scorn

With indifference

With respect

With love
15 Why is her uniform so special to Esmeralda?
She bought it herself

Ramona sewed it for her

It's the only possession that belongs solely to her

It's the uniform of an elite school
16 Where does the family live at the beginning of the memoir?
Ponce

San Juan

New York

Macún
17 Why does Ramona decide to move with the children to San Juan?
She found a job in San Juan

She misses her mom

Pablo disappears for days without warning

They have no money to live in Macún
18 What decade is it during Esmeralda's childhood?
1970s

1940s

1960s

1950s
19 How do the other children treat Esmeralda when she moves to a school in the city?
They make fun of her, calling her a jíbara

She makes a friend named Yolanda

They respect her for being so smart

They ignore her
20 Who does Esmeralda talk to when she has questions about the world?
Delsa, her sister

Pablo, her father

Ramona, her mother

Tata, her grandmother
21 What does Pablo do when he finds out where Ramona is living?
Spends time with the children and tries to win her back

Takes the children back with him

Yells at her for running away

Asks her to marry him
22 How does Esmeralda feel when the family moves back to Macún?
She misses her cousins in the city

Sad to be leaving the city

Suprised by how much it has changed

Excited to be home
23 Who's Juanita?
Esmeralda's teacher

Esmeralda's best friend in Macún

The new baby

Ramona's sister
24 Whose funeral does the family go to?
Pablo's

The local priests

Raymond's, Esmeralda's brother

Don Berto's, Juanita's grandfather
25 How does Pablo describe a soul?
That part of a person that falls in love

The part of a person that never dies

The part of a person that writes poetry

He doesn't believe in souls

¿What worried Esmeralda after talking to her guidance counselor?

Esmeralda wasn't sure what she wanted to do when she grew up. She was also conscious of the fact she could not speak English.

Asked by Jesus B #1264089

Answered by jill d #170087 on 10/19/2022 10:06 PM

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How has Mami’s appearance changed upon her return from New York?

In Chapter 10, Esmeralda takes in her mother's new appearance: curly black hair cropped short around her face, high heels, and painted nails. However, there’s something else different about Ramona: she carries herself with more pride,...

Asked by banks b #1327072

Answered by jill d #170087 on 11/10/2023 11:38 PM

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When I was Puerto tocan

To New York with her mother.

Asked by Joail R #1325922

Answered by Aslan on 11/2/2023 11:04 PM

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When I Was Puerto Rican

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