House On Mango Street Review 1 - P6

Esperanza is named after...

• her mother
• her grandmother
• her great-grandmother
• her great-great-grandmother

Which is the first street Esperanza can remember living at?

• Mango
• Keeler
• Loomis
• Paulina

On which street was Esperanza and her family living on when the nun made her feel like she was nothing.

• Paulina
• Keeler
• Loomis
• Mango

Whose hair represents protection?

• Papa
• Kiki
• Nenny
• Mama

Which word best describes Cathy's family?

• rich
• famous
• friendly
• racist

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

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).

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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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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Why did Esperanza’s great-great grandmother live a sad life?

• She suffered numerous illnesses throughout life

• She lost her beloved husband and a young age and never found love again

• She lived in a house without windows

• She was forced into a marriage she did not want to be part of