Segunda parte- La casa en Mango Street

What does Louie's cousin do with the Cadillac he drove?

• travels to Mexico and back

• takes his cousins for a ride

• sells it for $3750

• picks up his girlfriend from work

What does Marin do to earn money?

• She collects cans and bottles

• She babysits Louie's sisters

• She cleans Louie's house

• She is a waitress at a bar

What does Marin expect to do if she returns to Puerto Rico?

• return to the United States right away

• work on her other cousin's farm

• sell Avon make-up in Puerto Rico

• marry her boyfriend

Why does Esperzana like Marin?

• She is good at babysitting

• She is teaching Esperanza to sing

• She tells Esperanza adult things

• She bakes excellent cookies

What does Marin do each night?

• stand out in front of her house

• bake cookies

• volunteer at the local church

• go dancing

What does Esperanza notice about strangers who come into her neighbourhood and new neighbourhoods she drives through?

• Strangers feel scared and unsafe in new areas

• It is easy to get lost in new areas

• People are extremely and unexpectedly kind to strangers

• There are good stores and restaurants to discover in new areas

What is Rosa Vargas' life like?

• busy- she has 3 jobs she loves

• exciting- she travels monthly

• happy - she has everything she wants

• tiring- she cries because her hsuband left her and her kids

What do the neighbours do when the Vargas children misbehave?

• redirect them with a fun new game

• call their mother to inform her

• ignore the kids'behaviour

• gossip about which children will go to jail first

Why does Alicia get up early to make tortillas?

• Her father expects her to , since her mother died

• Tortillas are her favourite food, and no on else makes them correctly.

• The local bodega had a break-in, so she makes money selling the tortillas

• She feeds the mice the tortilla scraps.

Why does Alicia stay up so late each night?

• She goes out dancing until 3:00 a.m.

• She is studying for her college classes.

• She is an insomniac, so she watches t.v. to improve her English.

• She is too scared of the squeaking mice who scamper in the dark.