Question

Question 1

In Esperanza Rising, some children and adolescents have experiences in Mexico that are inconsistent with the rights of children covered in the 1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child. These rights of children that are not preserved include

	A.	The right to equal treatment, with no discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, property ownership, or other similar personal characteristics
B.		The right to full opportunities for recreation and play
C.		Both

QUESTION 2

The children and adolescents in the novel also face challenges to their rights in the United States. There, they find that

	A.	Employment is unjustly based on ethnicity
	B.	Migrant labor camps are integrated to avoid housing people based on ethnicity or treating them differently from each other as a result
	C.	Women are allowed to act as heads of household in the camps

QUESTION 3

Still, once they reach California, Esperanza and her companions are able to experience some of these rights of childhood, especially when they are with their own families and migrant communities, which attempt to counteract the injustices they experience in the outside world. These rights provided by families and communities include

A		The right to develop socially, especially to learn to interact well with different types of people
B		Housing that provides adequate privacy and at least is better than the stables at the Rancho de las Rosas
C		Protection from employment before an acceptable age and from exploitation by employers

QUESTION 4

If one expectation among educators is that Esperanza Rising will teach children about “how California became an agricultural and industrial power” and about California’s “political and cul­tural development,” what does the novel suggest to children about experiences of childhood within that context?

A		That California’s agricultural industry exploited underage migrant workers to help ensure the industry’s development and success
B		That young Mexican immigrants contributed substantially to California’s political and cultural development, including through various forms of resistance to injustice
C		Both

QUESTION 5

The documentary film Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary, when put in conversation withEsperanza Rising, suggests that

	A	The abuses of children’s rights that are depicted in Esperanza Rising were fully resolved after the 1930s and have not negatively affected children in the United States since that time
	B	The abuses of children’s rights that are depicted in Esperanza Rising were still occurring in the United States in the 1990s, even in California
	C	The abuses of children’s rights that are depicted in Esperanza Rising were still occurring in some parts of the United States in the 1990s, but not in California (which is more progressive)

Answer 1

Question 1: C. Both

Explanation: The declaration focuses on the complete mental, physical, and spiritual development of the child without abuse.

Question 2: A. Employment is unjustly based on ethnicity

Explanation: The other two options did not happen.

Question 3: A. The right to develop socially, especially to learn to interact well with different types of people

Explanation: It was not a right per se. Only the adults are put to work, the children stay back and Esperanza learns to sweep the camp in exchange for trading information about her past.

Question 4: Both

Explanation: Young migrants are put to work, and people like Marta try to organize a strike for higher wages for workers.

Question 5: B. The abuses of children’s rights that are depicted in Esperanza Rising were still occurring in the United States in the 1990s, even in California

Explanation: Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary explains how Proposition 187 leads to many undocumented children lose their right to education which could eliminate their difficulties in future and this did occur in the 1990s even in California.