The House on Mango Street chapters 26--35

Esperanza and the other kids like Ruthie because:

• She continually gives them money

• She is the only adult who plays with them

• She gives them rides in her yellow cadilac

• She's a double-dutch champion

According to Esperanza, Ruthie

• has a job as a writer

• actually has a great deal of inherited money

• is married and has a lovely house

• plans to open her own store

Ruthie seems to have problems when she:

• has to make a decision on her own

• enters a store or pubic place

• has to keep dental or vision appointments

• all of these

The Earl of Tennessee's occupation is that of:

• a juke-box repairman

• a record critic and collector

• a mechanic and engineer

• a neighborhood handyman

The women that the neighbors and children think are Earl's wife are actually:

• His mother and sister

• The owners of his building

• Likely prostitutes

• Women he is teaching to fix juke-boxes

Esperanza gains Sire's attention by:

• Calling him up and hanging up the phone

• pretending to steal his bicycle

• boldly ignoring him and walking right past

• calling to him from her window

Esperanza's parents don't approve of Sire and call him:

• a punk

• a loser

• a thief

• dirty

Esperanza's description of Lois portrays her as:

• Extremely intelligent and clever

• Surly and unfriendly

• Almost childlike, but of questionable morals

• Someone Esperanza desperately wants to have as a friend

It's obvious that Sire has noticed Esperanza because:

• he buys her a soda

• he runs his bike into a car while looking at her

• he gives her a nickname

• his friends start teasing him about Esperanza

The "four skinny trees" to which Esperanza refers were:

• a gift for Esperanza's birthday

• planted in memory of Angel Vargas

• symbolic of Esperanza's struggle to grow up

• dead before the summer was over