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- 1. Multiple Choice
"She sits all day by the window and plays the Spanish radio show and sings all the songs about her country in a voice that sounds like a seagull."
Esperanza
Mamacita
Rafaela
Sally
- 2. Multiple Choice
Rafaela's husband locks her in the apartment because...
he is afraid she will run away since she is too beautiful to look at.
he protects her from intruders.
she has dementia (is forgetful) and may get lost on the street.
being locked in an apartment makes her feel secure.
- 3. Multiple Choice
When Rafaela thinks of women... who "throw green eyes easily like dice and open homes with keys," she thinks of women's:
independence
fun personalities
entertainment skills
none of the above
- 4. Multiple Choice
Sally is a beautiful girl with
eyes like Egypt and shiny black hair.
eyes like Sahara and shiny black hair.
eyes like Morocco and wavy brown hair.
brown eyes and strawberry blond hair.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Sally's freedom is restricted by...
her mother's strict rules.
her fight with Cheryl.
her families' religous beliefs.
her school rules.
- 6. Multiple Choice
The narrartor knows that Sally is a subject to rumors because...
Esperanza's mother says to wear black is dangerous.
the boys tell stories about her in the coatroom.
Cheryl spreads some rumours.
her parents grounded her based on the rumours.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Minerva is unhappy because...
she has many troubles.
her husband is physically abusive leaving her black and blue.
her husband keeps on leaving and coming back.
all of the above are true
- 8. Multiple Choice
Esperanza says: "I have begun my own quiet war... I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate." This is her way of...
rebelling against house rules.
developing her independence as a woman.
fighting with her sister.
being lazy.
- 9. Multiple Choice
How many trees were planted by the city?
7
5
4
9
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following lines is an example of personification?"But I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.""I want to be like the waves on the sea, like the clouds in the wind, but I am me.""I want to be Tahiti. Or merengue. Or electricity.""My whole life on that kitchen table: past, present, future."
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhy did Esperanza feel close to Aunt Lupe?Esperanza is a good swimmer just like Aunt LupeAunt Lupe favored Esperanza over Nenny and CarlosAunt Lupe listened to Esperanza's poems and gave her advice on her writingAunt Lupe practically raised Esperanza as her own child
- 12. Multiple Choice
What news had Papa received in the chapter "Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark?"
He got fired from his job; he cries, and Esperanza doesn't know what to do.
He won the lottery, and Esperanza gains respect for risks.
His father had died, and he begins to cry, which befuddles Esperanza.
He finds out the city plans to demolish the house; he cries, and Esperanza is confused.
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWhat does Esperanza identify with outside her window?The trees because they are strongThe trees because they are tall and skinnyThe flower pots because they are strongThe neighbors because they have much better lives than she does.
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhat do you think Sally´s father expects her to be like based on the clothing she returns home from school in?trashymodest and age-appropriatelike a punk rockermodest but older than her age
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhat is wrong with Minerva´s relationship with her husband?he loves her but she doesn´t love him backhe is abusivehe wants to leave her but she won´t let himhe wants more children but she doesn´t
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhen Esperanza gets a house of her own, what does she dream of keeping in her attic?bumsratsdogscats
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWhy does Esperanza want to grow up beautiful and cruel?She wants to be an actressShe wants to keep her own personal powerShe doesn´t want to rely on a manShe wants to be a model
- 18. Multiple Choice
what is Nenny doing while Esperanza and Lucy argue?
Jumping rope
Listing names for clouds
Going to tell their mother
Doing her homework
- 19. Multiple ChoiceWhy did Esperanza's family move to Mango Street? (NT)it was the real house our family had always been looking forthe water pipes broke and the landlord wouldn't fix themour house on Loomis was too smallwe didn't have enough money to pay the rent
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWhat does Esperanza think of her name?a time of changea new beginninghope, change, lovesadness, waiting, a muddy color
- 21. Multiple ChoiceWhere did Esperanza get her name? (LT)her grandmotherher great-grandmotherher momthe school
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWho wrote The House on Mango Street?Frida KahloSandra CisnerosEsperanzaSandra Echeverría
- 23. Multiple ChoiceWhat does Esperanza say the Vargas kids don't have?They don't have any soccer balls.They don't have respect for living things or themselves.They don't have common sense.They don't have any money.
- 24. Multiple Choice
What does Esperanza realize about Sally in the Monkey Garden?
She doesn't care if her dad beats her
Sally has left childhood and its rules, and Esperanza comes to understand that the world is more complicated and disappointing than she thought.
Sally thinks Esperanza is a big baby.
Sally is more experienced in life than she is.
- 25. Multiple ChoiceWhat happened to Esperanza while she was waiting for Sally at the carnival?She tripped, fell and broke her armShe saw Sally get punched by her fatherA boy forced himself on her. He kissed her and, we assume, sexually assaulted herA boy kissed her and then Sally punched him in the eye
- 26. Multiple Choice
How are Sally's dad and Sally's husband alike?
They are both Mexican and like to make tortillas in the morning.
They both are very controlling - they tell her what she can and can't do.
They both allow her to live her life like she wants.
They both give her things to make her happy.
- 27. Multiple ChoiceWhat do the 3 sisters tell Esperanza?She will find the love of her life soon and will get married before she turns 20.She will only ever have a "home in her heart."When Esperanza leaves, she must remember to always come back for the others.When Esperanza becomes famous, she must remember to come back and get the other people who don't have the money to leave.
- 28. Multiple ChoiceWhat does Alicia help Esperanza to see about Mango Street?It is, and always will be, the best place they have all ever lived.Esperanza is a part of Mango Street and Mango Street is part of her.Mango Street isn't really as bad as she thinks it is.Mango Street is full of shady characters.
- 29. Multiple ChoiceIn the end, what does Esperanza understand?She will "come back" to Mango Street to help those who can never leave.Mango Street was the best home she ever had.Her parents will never leave Mango Street, so she will have to move back to help them.Home is where the heart is.
- 30. Multiple ChoiceWhy does the last vignette "Mango Says Goodbye" have a more hopeful mood than all the others?Esperanza finally realizes that it's not about where you came from it's about where you're going.Esperanza realizes that Mango Street made her a good person.Esperanza realizes that her family is her home.Mango Street is getting a make over so the residents are hopeful.
- 31. Multiple ChoiceLaughter
Name the members of the narrator's familyMama, Papa, Abuela, Kiki, and the NarratorMama, Papa, Carlos, Kiki, Nenny, and the narratorMama, Papa, Carlos, Mariana, Nenny, and the narratorMama, Uncle Lucho, Kiki, Nenny, and the narrator - 32. Multiple ChoiceAt what point did the narrator know that she needed to have herself a real house?One day, while she is playing in front of the apartment on Loomis, a nun from her school passes and asks where she lives. She points to the third floor of the worn, paint-peeled building, and the nun says: "You live there?" (pg.5)When the narrator and her family lived on Loomis, “the water pipes broke and the landlord wouldn’t fix them because the house was too old” (pg. 4).They moved around so much, the narrator’s parents always told them “that one day we would move into a house, a real house that would be ours for always so we wouldn’t have to move each year” (pg. 4).
- 33. Multiple ChoiceVignette: Boys and Girls
What does the narrator say about the relationship between boys and girls? What evidence does she provide to support this idea?When the narrator says that “the boys and the girls live in separate worlds”(pg.8), she is implying that the girls live on one planet and the boys live on a better planet.On page 8, the narrator says, “the boys and the girls live in separate worlds.” She implies that they exist in two different societies; they live by two sets of rules—rules that give men and boys more freedom and independence than women and girls.On page 8, the narrator says that “the boys in their universe and we in ours” which means they do not like to play with her and Nenny because they are different. - 34. Multiple ChoiceWhat does the narrator mean when she says, “Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor?She is saying that she, unlike her brothers, has a lot of responsibilities. She is not as free and independent as Carlos and Kiki, at least until Nenny is old enough to be mature.She believes that she is made of rubber and can be filled with helium and float into the sky.Here, she is implying that her parents hate her because she is a girl and they won’t let her do anything like Carlos and Kiki.
- 35. Multiple ChoiceWhat does Esperanza mean by the quote, “she looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow.”She means that women are forced to sit and ‘watch’ life go by without living their own dreams. They have to do what is expected of them.She means that her great-grandmother loved to look outside and see her children playing. If one of then got hurt, then she felt really sad.She means that she really wanted to be free, but her family kept her inside all day to look out the window.
- 36. Multiple ChoiceVignette: Those Who Don’t
What is the social commentary that the author is making in the Those Who Don't?She telling about the negative connotations that people have against people of color.She is explaining the importance of caring for everyone, even people who do not live in your neighborhood.She is telling of the many racial stereotypes that is shown to people in her neighborhood, but she also has her own stereotypes about people in other neighborhoods. - 37. Multiple ChoiceWhat does Esperanza mean when she says that Alicia inherited her mother’s rolling pin and sleepiness?She received her mother’s looks and mannerisms.She took over her mother’s position at the factory where she worked.She received all of her mother’s responsibilities of taking care of the family.
- 38. Multiple ChoiceVignette: The Family of Little Feet
How do the shoes change the girls?The girls’ feet began to grow like women’s feet.The girls acted like they were models in a magazine.The girls begin to act like they are older women. - 39. Multiple ChoiceHow do the men in the neighborhood behave when they see the girls in those shoes?The men began to notice Rachel, Lucy, and Esperanza. As they are walking, the men couldn’t keep their eye off of them.The men began to follow the girls and then they ran home and threw the shoes in the garbage.The men looked at the girls and told them that they needed to take the shoes off because they made them look too mature.
- 40. Multiple ChoiceVignette: Hips
While they are jumping rope, the girls are talking about hips, how “one day you wake up and they are there. “ What do the comments about what hips are for show about the girls? What evidence best supports this?Their comments show that they are now growing into young women. As they are outside jumping rope, Rachel, Lucy, and Esperanza are singing rhymes about hips and what they are used for while Nenny, the youngest is still singing as a child would. “She is too many light-years away. She is in a world we don’t belong to anymore.”Their comments show that they are trying to act older than what they are. They are little girls who should not be talking about hips. The show how immature they are when they believe that “if you don’t [get hips] you may turn into a man. - 41. Multiple ChoiceHow does Esperanza describe Elenita in "Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water--No Speak English"?She is like a fairy godmother.She is a gypsy.She is a witch woman.She is an angel.
- 42. Multiple ChoiceEsperanza asked about a house. What was Elenita's response?She said, "There's no place like home."She said, "Ah, yes, a home in the heart. I see a home in the heart."She said, "You will never feel at home anywhere."She said, "Your family is your home."
- 43. Multiple ChoiceWhat happened to Geraldo?He was in a hit-and-run accident and died.He was deported to Mexico.He was arrested for carrying drugs.He was robbed and beaten by a gang.
- 44. Multiple Choicewas a wild woman who was forced to get marriedMamagreat-grandmotherRachelMarin
- 45. Multiple Choice
longs for a friend she can trust and who understands her
Cathy
Mama
Marin
Esperanza
- 46. Multiple Choicehas tightly curled hair that reminds one of "the warm smell of bread before you bake it"MarinCathyMamaRuthie
- 47. Multiple Choicetells Esperanza that the neighborhood is getting badSallyCathyMarinEddie Vargas
- 48. Multiple Choicedreams of a home with a yard and three washroomsMamaEsperanzaPapaMinerva
- 49. Multiple Choicehelps Esperanza feel safe and lovedNennyMarinRuthieMama
- 50. Multiple ChoiceEsperanza doesn’t want to give her power to a man, but rather to be like the ___ characters that she sees in movies.BeautifulWise and OldCowboySavage
- 51. Multiple ChoiceWhat does Sally’s father do to try to keep her from running off with a man and shaming the family?Asks the boys to leaveBeats herLectures her
- 52. Multiple Choice
What is a simile?
States a fact or draws a verbal picture by the use of comparison. A Says you are something
Simple repeating of a word, within a sentence or a poetical line, with no particular placement of the words, in order to emphasize
Uses the words “like” or “as” to compare one object or idea with another to suggest they are alike.
Human characteristics are given to an animal or object
- 53. Multiple Choice
What is alliteration?
The repetition of the same initial letter, sound, or group of sounds in a series of words
A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given
to an animal or an object
States a fact or draws a verbal picture by the use of comparison. Says you are something
The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound or the sound made by an object or an action
- 54. Multiple Choice
What is a metaphor?
The repetition of the same initial letter, sound, or group of sounds in a series of words
States a fact or draws a verbal picture by the use of comparison. Says you are something
The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound or the sound made by an object or an action
Uses the words “like” or “as” to compare one object or idea with another to suggest they are alike. A simile would say you are like something
- 55. Multiple Choice
What is personification?
A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given
to an animal or an object
An exaggeration that is so dramatic that no one would believe the statement is true
States a fact or draws a verbal picture by the use of comparison. Says you are something
Simple repeating of a word, within a sentence or a poetical line, with no particular placement of the words, in order to emphasize
- 56. Multiple Choice
Who is Rachel?
Nenny´s best friend
she has a bell like laugh and Is sassy
She has large lips and big hips
Esperanza´s mother
- 57. Multiple ChoiceWho is Lucy?She shares a bike with Esperanza and NennyShe shares a car with Esperanza and Nennywas a wild woman who was forced to get marriedEsperanza´s neighbor who will be friends with her until Tuesday
- 58. Multiple ChoiceHow does Esperanza feel about her grandmother?She doesn´t want to end up like her - staring out the window, not following her dreamsShe loves her and wants to be just like herShe doesn´t want to be a wild horse womanShe wants to be just like her and wants to have a lot of children
- 59. Multiple Choice
My name is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings.
simile
metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification
- 60. Multiple Choice
Windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath.
simile
metaphor
personification
alliteration
- 61. Multiple Choice
My papa's hair is like a broom
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
- 62. Multiple Choice
This character marries young to escape home, but ends up marrying a man like her father.
Marin
Sally
Rafaela
Nenny
- 63. Multiple Choice
Her love languished in the limelight.
Simile
alliteration
allusion
metaphor
- 64. Multiple Choice
Which of these is NOT a person Esperanza feels is trapped?
Alicia
Minerva
Her mother
Sally
- 65. Multiple Choice
Where does Esperanza find a "home in her heart?"
in her friends
in her writing
in her family
in her dreams
- 66. Multiple ChoiceWho is Alicia?A good daughter who also goes to collegeA girl whose mom died and now she is about to get marriedA good daughter who secretly is running away to Puerto RIcoA girl who is afraid of mice and lives with her aunt and uncle
- 67. Multiple ChoiceWho is Aunt Lupe?Esperanza's aunt who died right after Esperanza and her friends made fun of herEsperanza's aunt who lives in Puerto RicoEsperanza's neighbor who has a lot of kidsEsperanza's favorite aunt who still lives in Mexico but writes to Esperanza every month.
- 68. Multiple ChoiceWho are the three sisters?Mysterious, but wise womenNeighborsEsperanza's auntsThey are nuns at school
- 69. Multiple ChoiceWhat is Rosa Vargas' life like?busy -- she has three jobs she lovesexciting -- she travels monthlyhappy -- she has everything she wantstiring -- she cries because her husband left her and with too many kids
- 70. Multiple Choice
Name the fairy tale seen in Alicia Who Sees Mice
Rapunzel
Cinderella
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
The big bad wolf
- 71. Multiple Choice
How is the story of Marin a reference to a fairy tale?
She desires to escape a mean witch (Louie’s mother)
She makes three wishes.
She is locked in a “tower.”
She wants a prince to save her.
- 72. Multiple Choice
What does writing represent?
A good job that a woman could get.
An ability to free oneself from pain and difficulty
A way to use your imagination
The way Esperanza’s family were able to come from Mexico.
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