The House on Mango Street p. 56-73

In the vignette "Sire", which line helps Esperanza prove her own inner strength?

• "I don't remember when I first noticed him looking at me-Sire."
• "Him and his friends sitting on their bikes in front of the house, pitching pennies.  They didn't scare me."
• "I walked fast.  It made your blood freeze to have somebody look at you like that."
• I had to prove to me I wasn't scared of nobody's eyes, not even his."

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Which line from the text creates a lonely mood?

• "The little wooden door that has wedged shut the dark for so long opens with a big sigh and lets out a breath of mold and dampness."
• "We didn't know.  She had been dying such a long time we forgot.  Maybe she was ashamed."
• "At night Nenny and I can hear when Earl comes home from work.  First the click and whine of a car door opening, then the scape of concrete, the excited tinkling of dog tags..."
• "Good lucky you didn't come yesterday, she says.  The planets were all mixed up yesterday."

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Which sentence from the text is an example of personification?

• The little wooden door that has wedged shut the dark for so long opens with a big sigh and lets out a breath of mold and dampness."
• "Her T.V. is color and big and all her pretty furniture made out of red fur like the teddy bears they give away at carnivals."
• "I might be telling her a joke and she'll stop and say: The moon is beautiful like a balloon."
• "Once she threw out a pragnant lady just because she owned a duck...and it was a nice duck."

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Vignette: "Born Bad"
Esperanza goes from describing her Aunt Lupe as a wonderful woman who used to be a great swimmer to describing Aunt Lupe once she got ill.  This causes the tone to shift from

• dark to light-hearted
• apprehensive to disappointed
• happy to unsocial
• light-hearted to dreary

Vignette:  "Born Bad"
Esperanza illustrates Aunt Lupe's beauty through the use of the following literary technique.

• Allusion to a Hollywood actress
• Simile to compare Aunt Lupe to the Mona Lisa
• Hyperbole to describe her physical features
• Epiphany to explain how she realized her Aunt Lup was a famous Hollywood Actress

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Vignette:  "Papa Who Wakes up Tired in the Dark"
Why was Esperanza's father so sad?

• He is tired of working the 3rd shift
• His sister died
• His wife died
• Esperanza got into trouble with a nun at school

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Esperanza innocence can best be illustrated by her

• belief that her game is what killed her Aunt
• understanding that Aunt Lupe was a great swimmer
• desire to be like grown-ups and feel in love
• necessity to write poetry 

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What happened to Geraldo as a result of being an illegal immigrant?

• He was denied quality medical treatment
• He was arrested and sent back to Mexico
• He was forced to move into a neighborhood that was populated by Mexicans
• He had to sneak the rest of his family across the border

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CCSS.RL.2.6

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Vignette:  "Edna's Ruthie"
Ruthie is characterized as 

• crazy
• intelligent
• peaceful
• self-centenred

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Vignette:  "Edna's Ruthie"
Regardless of how Esperanza sees Ruthie, the fact she acts the way she does is most likely because she is

• depressed
• self-centered
• mentally disabled
• shy