Esperanza Rising Weekly Quizzes Week Four

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Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Week Five This page contains the quiz questions for week four's readings. There are five questions for each week's quiz and links to Microsoft Word files of the questions can be found here (PDF link is here ) and the answers can be found here (PDF link is here ).   1) The move to California has not gone well for Esperanza's mother. What two ailments has she been diagnosed with while living in California?       2) The workers at the camp live and work in poor conditions. On top of these poor conditions, they live in fear of many things like dust storms and the event that occurs in this week's readings. What event occurred that was hazardous to the workers?       3) Outside of the camp, Esperanza is striving to achieve some type of recognition. What is that recognition that she so desperately wants?         4) Miguel claims that "Americans see us as one big, brown group who are good for only manual labor" and that they shop in the Japanese market because they "stock many of the things that we need and he treats us like people." Describe the differences between the American view of Latinos and the Japanese store-owner's view of Latino.           5) Present an example from the text where whites were given preferential treatment to Latinos.

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