Characters
Literary Terms
Vocabulary
Plot
Symbols
100
Esperanza's youngest sister
Who is Nenny?
100
Colt was as hungry as a lion when he arrived to lunch.
What is a simile?
100
For a limited time
What is temporary?
100
The novel is set in this city.
What is Chicago?
100
A symbol for maturity
What is feet?
200
Esperanza's last name
What is Cordero?
200
Cindy swims like a fish.
What is a simile?
200
To receive from one who has gone before
What is inherit?
200
Esperanza wishes for this above anything else
What is a house?
200
The women in Esperanza's neighborhood try to escape their lives by
What is getting married?
300
Esperanza does not want to be like this relative with the same name and sit looking out the window.
Who is her great-grandmother?
300
The lamp was a beacon of sunlight.
What is a metaphor?
300
To go down; as in a flight of stairs
What is descended?
300
Esperanza's heritage
What is Mexican?
300
The women in Esperanza's life who are trapped often look out
What is a window?
400
Esperanza's friend who marries before 8th grade.
Who is Sally?
400
The snow whispered as it fell to the ground.
What is personification?
400
savage; fierce
What is ferocious?
400
The local hangout for the kids on Esperanza's street
What is The Monkey Garden?
400
The four skinny trees
What are Esperanza's siblings?
500
What Esperanza's name means in English
What is hope?
500
The inside of the car was a refrigerator.
What is a metaphor?
500
satisfied
What is content?
500
Esperanza's mother quit school because she did not have
What is nice clothes?
500
Esperanza must remember to
What is come back to Mango Street?
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