House on Mango Street Vocab

Which word means lacking in strength or firmness or resilience

• Crumple

• Limp

• Swell

• Totter

My mother says when I get older my dusty hair will settle and my blouse will learn to stay clean, but I have decided not to grow up tame like the others who lay their necks on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain.

What does Threshold represent in this sentence?

• university life

• married life

• prison life

Which vocabulary word means: expand abnormally

• canteen

• trudged

• wedged

• swell

In the novel The House on Mango Street, Who crumpled on the bed crying?

• Esperanza

• Esperanza's dad

• Esperanza's mom

• Nenny

Why were the girls Lucy, Rachel, me tee- tottering like so?

• Because they were dancing.

• Because they were trying to walk in heels.

• Because they were jumping rope.

• because they were running on the street.

A Tavern is the same thing as a ..........

• school

• hospital

• cafeteria

• bar

Which place would you find kids and food?

• Tavern

• Canteen

Which vocabulary word can complete the following phrase:

The little wooden door that has _________ shut the dark out of the room.

• wedged

• trudged

• crumpled

• swell

Which word means: move without being stable, as if threatening to fall

• crumple

• totter

• strut

• trudged

To fold or collapse is to ________.

• strut

• swell

• crumple

• trudge