The House on Mango Street Quiz 1

Laughter
Name the members of the narrator's family

• Mama, Papa, Abuela, Kiki, and the Narrator
• Mama, Papa, Carlos, Kiki, Nenny, and the narrator
• Mama, Papa, Carlos, Mariana, Nenny, and the narrator
• Mama, Uncle Lucho, Kiki, Nenny, and the narrator

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CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

Vignette: The House on Mango Street
 One of the major themes, the importance of home to one's status in society, is introduced in vignette one. What does the narrator feel about home?

• Home is awesome.
• Home is the place that she escapes from the outside world.
• Home is her dream.
• Home is a place that makes her feel safe, secure, comfortable and sometimes disappointed. 

At what point did the narrator know that she needed to have herself a real house?

• One day, while she is playing in front of the apartment on Loomis, a nun from her school passes and asks where she lives. She points to the third floor of the worn, paint-peeled building, and the nun says: "You live there?" (pg.5)
• When the narrator and her family lived on Loomis, “the water pipes broke and the landlord wouldn’t fix them because the house was too old” (pg. 4). 
• They moved around so much, the narrator’s parents always told them “that one day we would move into a house, a real house that would be ours for always so we wouldn’t have to move each year” (pg. 4).

Was the house on Mango Street a place she wanted to call home?

• No. The house on Mango Street reminded her of the homes on Loomis, Keeler, and Paulina.
• Yes. The house on Mango Street was the “house Papa talked about when he held a lottery ticket and this was the house Mama dreamed up in the stories she told us before we went to bed” (pg. 4). 
•  No. The house on Mango Street was a disappointment because it is not big and fancy at all, and all six family members have to share a bedroom.
•  Yes. The house on Mango Street was theirs. They did not have to “pay rent to anybody, or share a yard with the people downstairs, or be careful not to make too much noise…” (pg.3).

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CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

Vignette: Boys and Girls
What does the narrator say about the relationship between boys and girls? What evidence does she provide to support this idea?

• When the narrator says that “the boys and the girls live in separate worlds”(pg.8), she is implying that the girls live on one planet and the boys live on a better planet.
• On page 8, the narrator says, “the boys and the girls live in separate worlds.” She implies that they exist in two different societies; they live by two sets of rules—rules that give men and boys more freedom and independence than women and girls.
• On page 8, the narrator says that “the boys in their universe and we in ours” which means they do not like to play with her and Nenny because they are different. 

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CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

What does the narrator mean when she says, “Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor?

• She is saying that she, unlike her brothers, has a lot of responsibilities. She is not as free and independent as Carlos and Kiki, at least until Nenny is old enough to be mature. 
• She believes that she is made of rubber and can be filled with helium and float into the sky.
• Here, she is implying that her parents hate her because she is a girl and they won’t let her do anything like Carlos and Kiki. 

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What does Esperanza mean by the quote, “she looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow.” 

• She means that women are forced to sit and ‘watch’ life go by without living their own dreams. They have to do what is expected of them. 
• She means that her great-grandmother loved to look outside and see her children playing. If one of then got hurt, then she felt really sad. 
• She means that she really wanted to be free, but her family kept her inside all day to look out the window.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Vignette: Marin  
How is Marin like Esperanza’s grandmother? 

• Like Esperanza’s great-grandmother, she was born in the Chinese year of the horse—which is bad luck because she is a female. 
• Marin, like Esperanza’s great grandmother, had a sack thrown over her head and then carried off to be married. 
• Like a younger version of Esperanza’s great-grandmother, Marin likes to be herself—an individual. She is not yet married, so she lives freely. She smokes cigarettes and dances under the streetlights. 

Vignette: Those Who Don’t  
What is the social commentary that the author is making in the Those Who Don't?

• She telling about the negative connotations that people have against people of color.
• She is explaining the importance of caring for everyone, even people who do not live in your neighborhood.
• She is telling of the many racial stereotypes that is shown to people in her neighborhood, but she also has her own stereotypes about people in other neighborhoods. 

What does Esperanza mean when she says that Alicia inherited her mother’s rolling pin and sleepiness?

• She received her mother’s looks and mannerisms. 
• She took over her mother’s position at the factory where she worked.
• She received all of her mother’s responsibilities of taking care of the family.