Family
Esperanza’s abuelito passes away. What does abuelito mean?
Grandfather
What are the names of the two girls who ask Esperanza to chip in to buy a bike and share the hand-me-down high heels (must have both names)?
Rachel and Lucy
What is the place Esperanza is most ashamed of?
The House on Mango Street
“Two girls raggedy as rats” is an example of which literary device?
Simile
“Not a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man’s house. A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias. My books and my stories. My two shoes waiting beside the bed. Nobody to shake a stick at. Nobody’s garbage to pick up after.”
All of the sentences above are examples of which?
A. Independent clauses
B. Fragments
C. Run-ons
B. Fragments
Name one of Esperanza's siblings.
Carlos, Kiki, or Nenny
What is the name of the man who dies because he can’t see a doctor soon enough?
Geraldo
What is the local hangout for Esperanza's friends and the closest thing to a playground that the kids have?
The Monkey Garden
"A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias. My books and my stories. My two shoes waiting beside the bed," is an example of which literary device?
Repetition
“Hurray! Today we are Cinderella because our feet fit exactly…” In the previous quotation, “we” is what part of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, etc.)?
Pronoun
What does the name "Esperanza" mean in English?
Hope
Who does Esperanza accuse of lying to her?
Sally
Where did Esperanza's family immigrate from?
Mexico
Esperanza primarily uses this literary device to explain how the four skinny trees teach her to be determined and inspire her to keep on going and surviving.
Personification
“Hurray! Today we are Cinderella because our feet fit exactly…” In the previous quotation, “Hurray” is what part of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, etc.)?
Interjection
Esperanza's mother says she quit school because she was ashamed she didn't have this
Nice clothes
Who is the girl who works hard to get an education, even though her father disapproves of it?
Alicia
Where was Esperanza sexually assaulted?
The Carnival
“… who is tired all the time from buttoning and bottling and babying” is an example of which literary device?
Alliteration
“Today we are Cinderella because our feet fit exactly, and we laugh at Rachel’s one foot with a girl’s grey sock and a lady’s high heel” is an example of which comma rule?
IC, cc IC
This is the body part that Esperanza describes to introduce us to each of her family members.
Hair
Who is the man who brings home a different woman every time?
The Earl of Tennessee
Name ONE of the streets Esperanza lived on before Mango Street.
Keeler, Loomis, or Paulina
Cisneros uses the houses on the hill to represent the better life Esperanza wants, but can’t have. When one thing is used to represent another, it is this literary device.
Symbolism or Metaphor
The following is an example of which comma rule: “…but I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don’t like their women strong”?
,Non,