Category I
What made Esperanza feel ashamed in front of the nun?
A) Her torn shoes
B) Her judgmental tone when she pointed to her house
C) Forgetting to speak English
Answer:
B) Her judgmental tone when she pointed to her house
What kind of person is Cathy?
A) A snobbish girl who looks down on others
B) A friendly and generous girl, who likes everyone
C) A shy girl who never talks
Answer:
A) A snobbish girl who looks down on others
Why does Esperanza give Rachel and Lucy money?
A) She wants them to buy candy
B) She feels sorry for them
C) She wants to share a bicycle with them
Answer:
C) She wants to share a bicycle with them
What is special about the tree near Meme’s house?
A) It’s used for climbing and games like Tarzan Jumping
B) It’s haunted
C) It’s a fruit tree
Answer:
A) It’s used for climbing and games like Tarzan Jumping
What do Louie’s cousin’s actions show about him?
A) He is responsible
B) He is careless and possibly a thief
C) He is a police officer
Answer:
B) He is careless and possibly a thief
Where did the narrator live before moving to Mango Street?
Answer:
On Loomis Street, and before that on Keeler, and before that on Paulina.
What did Mama and Papa promise the children about their future house?
Answer:
That it would be a real house with running water, stairs, a basement, and a yard with trees and grass.
Who is Cathy, and what title does she give herself?
Answer:
Cathy, Queen of Cats — Esperanza’s short-term friend who owns many cats.
Why does Cathy move away from Mango Street?
Answer:
She says the neighborhood is getting bad because “people like us” are moving in.
What happens to Meme Ortiz during the Tarzan Jumping Contest?
Answer:
He wins but breaks both of his arms.
What tragic event happens to one of Rosa Vargas’s children?
Answer:
Angel Vargas falls from the roof and dies.
What happens to Louie’s cousin in the yellow Cadillac?
Answer:
He crashes into a lamppost and gets arrested.
What does Marin dream of?
Answer:
Meeting someone who will take her away to a better life.
How do outsiders feel when they enter Esperanza’s neighborhood?
Answer:
They feel scared and think the people there are dangerous.
What is Alicia afraid of?
Answer:
Mice and her father.
“The landlord wouldn’t fix them because the house was too old.”
What is a landlord?
Answer:
The person who owns and rents out a house.
“You don’t pick your sisters; you just get them.”
Here, get them means:
A) Receive by chance
B) Choose carefully
C) Lose easily
D) Meet rarely
Answer:
A) Receive by chance
“I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor.”
What does anchor symbolize?
Answer:
Something that holds you down
“He threw a sack over her head.”
Here sack means:
A) A hat
B) A large bag
C) A chair
D) A toy
Answer:
B) A large bag
“She looked out the window her whole life, resting her sadness on an elbow.”
This phrase means she was:
A) Angry
B) Working hard
C) Reading
D) Tired and hopeless
Answer:
D) Tired and hopeless
“The stifling air in the small room mirrored her mother’s unfulfilled dreams.”
What does stifling - /ˈstaɪflɪŋ/ mean?
Answer:
suffocating; hard to breathe
“Her defiant tone shows she refuses to be defined by others.”
What does Defiant - /dɪˈfaɪənt/ mean?
Answer:
resisting authority or expectations,
clearly refusing to do what someone tells you to do
“Her grandmother’s marriage was a lifelong confinement.”
What does confinement - /kənˈfaɪnmənt/ mean?
Answer:
being trapped or restricted
“The house stood dilapidated, its paint peeling like old skin.”
what does Dilapidated - /dɪˈlæpɪdeɪtɪd/ mean?
Answer:
in poor condition due to age or neglect
“She drifted into a reverie about a house of her own.”
What does Reverie - /ˈrevəri/ mean?
Answer:
daydream or fantasy, a state of imagining or thinking about pleasant things, that is like dreaming → daydream