Esperanza
Family
Friends
Mango Street
Miscellaneous
100

The translation of the protagonist's name, Esperanza.

What is Hope

100
Esperanza's little sister
What is Nenny
100

What does Rafaela ask Esperanza to purchase for her because she can't leave her home? 

What is Coconut and Papaya Juice?

100

What object does Esperanza say are the only things that understand her?

What are four skinny trees?

100
The heritage of the author, Sandra Cisneros
What is Latina
200
What Esperanza wishes for above all else
What is a house
200

When Esperanza's father first came to the United States, what did he eat almost every day?

What is hamandeggs?

200
What Rachel, Lucy, and Esperanza purchased together
What is a bike
200
The character who does not speak English
What is Mamacita
200
The city this story is set in.
What is Chicago
300
Esperanza's first job
What is Peter Pan's Photo Finishers
300
Where Esperanza's family is from
What is Mexico
300
What hand-me-down items Esperanza and her friends receive from a neighbor
What is high-heeled shoes
300

The character who is described as beautiful and gets married when she is in 8th grade

What is Sally?

300
The person in Esperanza's family who dies
What is abuelito/grandfather
400
When she gets a house of her own, who or what Esperanza says she would let sleep in her attic
What is bums
400
What was in Esperanza's sandwich the day she ate in the canteen at school
What is rice
400
A place that becomes a symbol of magic and freedom for the neighborhood children
What is the Monkey Garden
400
How the girls in Esperanza's neighborhood often try to escape their lives, or escape Mango Street.
What is getting married
400
The body part that Esperanza fixates on as a symbol of her unattractiveness
What is her feet
500
What the old ladies at Rachel and Lucy's sibling's funeral tell Esperanza she must do.
What is return to Mango Street to help those who cannot leave
500

What are some skills Esperanza's mom has even though she never had a formal education? Name 2.

What is speaking two languages, singing opera, fixing a TV, or drawing? 

500
Esperanza's friend who writes poetry
What is Minerva
500
Two characters that are imprisoned by the men in their lives.
What is Sally and Rafaela
500
Esperanza's older friend who values education because she "doesn't want to spend her whole life in a factory or behind a rolling pin"
What is Alicia
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