Elena
  • 1. Who is telling the story?
A) Rosa (Eleana's child)
B) Elena
C) Juan (Elena' son)
D) Pablo (Elena's husband)
  • 2. What happened to Elena's husband?
A) He was killed when a train hit him.
B) He was shot by Pancho Villa.
C) He was killed in an accident involving a horse.
D) He ran off, leaving his family behind, and became a famous hat maker.
  • 3. Elena was a....
A) great hat maker.
B) terrible mother because she took her family away from Mexico.
C) horse.
D) confident, caring, educated woman.
  • 4. When Pancho Villa came, why was the family frantically looking from Esteban?
A) because they were afraid that Pancho Villa and his men would force him to join their army.
B) because Esteban wanted to join Pancho Villa's army.
C) because Esteban wanted Pancho Villa's autograph.
D) because Pancho Villa wanted Esteban to make him a hat.
  • 5. When Pancho Villa and his men came to town, Elena was worried because
A) he was her husbands enemy.
B) he used to be a bandit. Also the men in his army stole from people and killed people who challenged them.
C) she knew he would come to her house to get a hat.
D) she had dated him when she was younger.
  • 6. When Elena actually met Pancho Villa he was
A) ugly and mad.
B) mean and violent.
C) respectful, nice and shy.
D) angry
  • 7. Why did Elena take her family away from the village?
A) because Pancho Villa and his men threatened them.
B) because Esteban want to join the army.
C) because her husband had told her when he was about to die, that they must leave their home.
D) because nobody would buy their hats.
  • 8. Where did Elena take her family?
A) Washington D.C.
B) Spain
C) New York
D) California
  • 9. What did Elena do for work after they moved?
A) ran a boardinghouse
B) had a hat shop
C) ran a grocery store
D) picked fruit
  • 10. How did Esteban change after they moved?
A) he became happier and seemed to be smiling all the time
B) he got married and had three children
C) he didn't laugh and play with his sister anymore
D) he became a criminal
  • 11. Why did Rosa say that Elena never became a "real American"?
A) because she didn't speak English
B) because she still had memories and felt a connection to her previous home in Mexico
C) because she hated American food
D) because she wasn't born in California
  • 12. How did most of Elena's family change after moving?
A) they became selfish and mean.
B) they were all mad
C) they started acting like Americans and saw themselves as "real Americans".
D) they were all happier
  • 13. Which of the following probably wouldn't be a moral of the story?
A) life will always improve if you move
B) just because somebody has a bad reputation it doesn't mean they are bad people
C) change is not a bad thing
D) if you do what is best for your family, things will work out.
  • 14. Why was it a good thing that Elena and her family fled their village?
A) because their cousin Trinidad went crazy and had to be put in a Mexican jail.
B) because when they left their village they were homeless.
C) because their village was destroyed and they might have all been killed if they stayed there.
D) because Panch Villa wanted to marry Elena
  • 15. If the story continued, which of the following things would have author most likely written about.
A) She might have told about how many Mexican immigrants in California made a living picking fruit and vegetables.
B) She would have told about how the people in the family got older. She might have told about some of them getting married and having children, while others got older and died.
C) She might have told about a fireball landing on Earth and blowing up the planet.
D) She might have told about how Pancho Villa continued to go around Mexico destroying villages and killing people.
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