Character
Setting
Plot
Vocabulary
Anything Goes
100
This is Louie's girl cousin's name. She is always babysitting Louie's little sisters.
What is Marin?
100
This is where Alicia is going to when she has to take "two trains and a bus."
What is college?
100
This is what the narrator and the other neighbor's did while Louie's cousin was driven away in the cop car.
What is waved goodbye to him?
100
This is another word for "stockings," "tights," or "pantyhose"?
What are nylons?
100
This is what the quote "all brown all around, we are safe."
What is that in the neighborhood where everyone is the same race, they feel safe?
200
This is the name of the girl who goes to college to try and escape the neighborhood.
What is "Alicia"?
200
This is the name of the junk store that the girls visit.
What is "Gil's Bought and Sold"?
200
This is the type of rodent that is living in Alicia's house with her.
What are mice?
200
This is a tool that Alicia uses in the kitchen that she "inherited from her" mother.
What is a rolling pin?
200
This is how Marin makes money so she can go back to Mexico.
What is selling makeup?
300
This is who owns the corner store.
Who is Benny and Blanca?
300
This is where Alicia's father says that a woman's place is.
What is "in the kitchen"?
300
This is the reason that Rosa Vargas cries every day.
What is that she has too many children and her husband left without leaving a note or any money.
300
This is a synonym for "bum man".
What is a homeless person or hobo?
300
This is an article of clothing that the narrator, Rachel and Lucy get that makes all the boys notice them.
What is high heel shoes?
400
This is the name of the character who talks about seeing God in the clouds.
What is "Darius"?
400
This is where the apartment is located that Louie, his little sisters, and his cousin move into.
What is the basement of MeMe's house?
400
This is the name for the group of people that have "30 names for snow."
What is The Eskimos?
400
This is the name of a decorated piece that people put flowers in.
What is a vase?
400
This is what Marin says is important about standing outside on the porch every night.
What is to make sure she sees the boys and the boys see her?
500
This is the name of the Vargas child who falls and dies.
What is Angel Vargas (p. 30)?
500
This is where the girls meet the bum man in the story about the shoes.
What is in front of the tavern?
500
This is where the girls got all the high-heeled shoes.
What is mother of the family with little feet?
500
This is the name of a place where people go to wash their clothes when they don't have a washer or dryer in their homes.
What is the laundromat?
500
This is what the sky represents in the story "Darius and the Clouds" (pg. 33).
What are dreams?
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