House on Mango Street

Which sentence does NOT describe the house on Mango Street?

• It is large and blue
• Some of the bricks are crumbling.
• There is no front yard.
• There is one bedroom and one bathroom.

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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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At what point did the narrator know that she needed to have her 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?" ( Cisneros 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” (Cisneros 4). 
• Because 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” (Cisneros 4).
• When the narrator reflects upon the physical features of the house: "It's small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath," (Cisneros 4).

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How was the house on Mango Street different from the other houses the family had lived in?

• It was the largest house they had ever lived in.
• The government was paying for it.
• It was their own house.
• It was the first two-story house they had lived in.

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was a wild woman who was forced to get married

• Mama
• great-grandmother
• Rachel
• Marin

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spent her life looking out the window

• Mama
• Ruthie
• great-grandmother
• Minerva

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In Spanish, our narrators name means:

• Faith
• Justice
• Love
• Hope

In the final vignette, what does Esperanza say she likes to do?

• paint pictures
• write songs
• tell stories
• watch sunsets

My Name
What is the narrator's name, and what does it mean in English and Spanish?

• It is Blance. In English it means "white." In Spanish it means "pure."
• It is "Esperanza." In English it means "hope." In Spanish it means "too many letters."
• It is "Nenny" and It doesn't mean much of anything
• It is "Esperanza" and it means woman.

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A Vignette is a:

• long and straightforward writing technique
• type of home often seen in Chicago in the 1980s
• A loose woman
• A brief evocative description, account, or episode.

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