Esperanza Rising Los Asperragos

What are Esperanza, Josefine and Hortensia packing in this chapter?

• Clothes for a trip

• Presents for Mr. Fox's Birthday

• Asparagus

• Grapevines

What do the strikers throw at Esperanza and the other workers when they arrive at the packing shed?

• rice

• candy

• rocks

• bows

The whole family is worried about something. What was it?

• rattlesnakes

• rocks

• new immigrants arriving to work for only 5 cents per pound

• dust storms

What were the group of vehicles from the immigration department there to do?

• Deliver pizza

• haul away the strikers and deport them back to Mexico

• take workers to a new field

Esperanza helps Marta, who is hiding from the immigration people. How?

• She gives her an apron to disguise her as a worker

• She braids her hair to disguise her.

• She hands her rubber bands to tie the asparagus.

When Esperanza and Miguel return to the farm field the next morning, what do they discover?

• Bigfoot

• Abuelita is there waiting for them

• Immigration officials have raided the field and there is no one in sight

What does Esperanza discover at the end of the chapter as she and Miguel are at the farm.

• New baby pigs

• The pinata she gave the kids, insides torn out

• Asparagus

• Bigfoot