Semester 1 Test Review: House on Mango Street

What genre is The House on Mango Street?

• fiction

• non-fiction

• poetry

• memoir

What is the narrator's name? What does she say it means in English and Spanish?

• It is Blanca. In English it means "white." In Spanish it means "blank."

• It is Magdalena. In English it means "moon." In Spanish it means "mom."

• It is Esperanza. In English it means "spirit." In Spanish it means "evergreen."

• It is Esperanza. In English it means "hope." In Spanish it means "too many letters."

In The House on Mango Street, what is the main thing that makes the narrator ashamed?

• She is ashamed that her father works as a gardener

• She is ashamed to go staring at other people's houses like a beggar

• She is ashamed of her family's small house

• She is ashamed because her parents play the lottery

We saw the yellow Cadillac at the end of the block trying to make a left-hand turn, but our alley is too skinny and the car crashed into a lamppost. In which sentence does the word block mean the same thing as in the sentence above?

• Mom was so tired of that salesman bothering her that she had the phone company block his calls.

• Little Derrick put one block on top of another, trying to make the biggest tower ever.

• Terrell did his best to block the pass, but the football sailed over his head.

• All of the houses on our block are made of the same dirty-looking yellow brick.

We had to leave the flat on Loomis quick. The water pipes broke and the landlord wouldn’t fix them because the house was too old. In which sentence does the word flat mean the same thing as in the sentence above?

• I don’t know how Serena got into the choir, since she always sings a little bit flat.

• When we go to the city to visit our cousins, we always stay at my aunt's flat downtown.

• After you iron the dress, please lay it flat on the bed.

• Jeremy won his race, finishing the course in two minutes flat.

The title of which vignette is an allusion to a Nursery Rhyme?

• "The Three Sisters"

• "Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut and Papaya Juice on Tuesdays"

• "There Was an Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn't Know What to Do"

• "Beautiful & Cruel"

The vignette "Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut and Papaya Juice on Tuesdays" contains an allusion to which fairy tale?

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

• Rapunzel

• Sleeping Beauty

• Cinderella

Which vignette contains an allusion to the Moirai, or goddesses of fate, in Greek Mythology?

• "The Three Sisters"

• "Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut and Papaya Juice on Tuesdays"

• "There Was an Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn't Know What to Do"

• "Four Skinny Trees"

True or False: Esperanza does not want to conform to the "norms" of her society.

• True

• False

The House on Mango Street is a collection of...

• chapters

• vignettes

• poems

• dialogues