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Comprehension
Literary Devices
Analysis
Motifs
Characters
100
Marin and Geraldo's relationship.
Who met each other at a dance?
100
“Sometimes we go shopping and take her with us, but she never comes inside the stores and if she does she keeps looking around her like a wild animal in a house for the first time" (Cisneros 68).
What is a simile?
100
Marin’s reaction to Geraldo’s death reveals that…
What is _____?
100
“The moon is beautiful like a balloon” (Cisneros 68).
What is a balloon?
100
The name of the boy that Marin met at a dance.
Who is Geraldo?
200
This character “has two little black dogs that go everywhere with” him/her (Cisneros 71).
Who is Earl?
200
“‘The sun was shining on the sea, shining with all his might…’” (Cisneros 69).
What is personification?
200
An example of the plight of the poor on Mango Street (especially relating to medical care).
What is that the doctors would not come to save Geraldo, so he died?
200
“I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. One I could point to. But this isn't it. The house on Mango Street isn't it" (Cisneros 5).
What is a house?
200
The name of Edna's daughter.
Who is Ruthie?
300
This character likes to go to dances (even though her parents try to keep her at home).
Who is Marin?
300
“Then we heard someone whistling--beautiful like the Emperor’s nightingale-- and when we turned around there was Ruthie" (Cisneros 68)
What is a simile?
300
Characterization of Ruthie
What is missed opportunities; Ruthie was smart and liked to read but chose to get married instead?
300
“Someday I will have a best friend all my own. One I can tell my secrets to. One who will understand my jokes without my having to explain them” (Cisneros 9)
What is friendship?
300
“Tall skinny lady with red lipstick and blue babushka, one blue sock and one green because she forgot” (Cisneros 67).
Who is Ruthie?
400
Ruthie promises to go many places. They are…
What are the dentist and the eye doctor?
400
“They don’t walk like ordinary dogs, but leap and somersault like an apostrophe and comma” (Cisneros 71).
What is a simile?
400
Characterization of Edna
What is mean; she threw out a woman who was pregnant for having a duck?
400
“One day I memorized all of ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’ because I wanted Ruthie to hear me” (Cisneros 69).
What is poetry?
400
"His blinds are always closed during the day. Sometimes he comes out and tells us to keep quiet” (Cisneros 70)
Who is Earl?
500
Bobo the dog is owned by…
Who is Ruthie?
500
“Or somebody might be singing and she’ll point to the clouds: Look, Marlon Brando. Or a sphinx winking. Or my left shoe” (Cisneros 68).
What is an anaphora?
500
Why Ruthie does not want to go out with friends and why she does not want to play with the children.
What is she has never completely grown up; she is still a child (asked permission to go out, didn’t finish education, likes to play the children’s games and whistle).
500
“The boys and girls live in separate worlds. The boys in their universe and we in ours. My brothers for example. They've got plenty to say to me and Nenny inside the house. But outside they can't be seen talking to girls” (Cisneros 8).
What is gender?
500
The grocery store owner. Ruthie loves buying candy from this grocery store.
Who is Mr. Benny?