Esperanza
Family
Friends
Mango Street
Miscellaneous
100
The translation of the protagonist's name, Esperanza.
What is Hope
100
Esperanza's little sister
Who is Nenny
100
Esperanza's best friends
Who are Rachel and Lucy
100
What the Vargas kids don't have
What is respect for anyone, including themselves
100
The heritage of the author, Sandra Cisneros
What is Latina
200
What Esperanza wishes for above all else
What is a house
200
The names of each person in Esperanza's family (must get at least 5/6)
Who are Papa, Mama, Carlos, Kiki, Esperanza and Nenny
200
What Rachel, Lucy, and Esperanza purchased together
What is a bike
200
The character who does not speak English
Who 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
Where 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 too exotic for Mango Street
Who is Sally
300
The person in Esperanza's family who dies
Who 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
What Meme won, but also broke both arms competing in
What is the Annual Tarzan Jumping Contest
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
Who bothers Esperanza because she is too young
Who is Nenny
500
Esperanza's friend who writes poetry
Who is Minerva
500
What Louie's cousin stole and brought to Mango Street
What is a yellow cadillac
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"
Who is Alicia
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