2. What does Aunt Lupe tell Esperanza to do?
(a) She tells her to marry soon, while she’s still young.
(b) She tells her to keep writing.
(c) She tells her to be practical.
(d) She tells her to keep going to school.

3. Why does Esperanza believe that life is easier for Nenny?
(a) Because Nenny is beautiful.
(b) Because Nenny is young.
(c) Because Nenny is tall.
(d) Because Nenny is naïve.

4. Why doesn’t Sally leave her apartment?
(a) She is ill.
(b) She’s depressed and homesick.
(c) She has no money to buy goods.
(d) She’s afraid to do so without her husband’s permission.

5. Why doesn’t Rafaela leave her apartment?
(a) Her husband locks her inside.
(b) She is too ill.
(c) Her baby is sick.
(d) She doesn’t like talking to her neighbors.

6. Why does Esperanza like to be with Sally?
(a) Because Sally is funny.
(b) Because Sally is beautiful and Esperanza wants to be like her.
(c) Because they are friends and she finds Sally’s laugh infectious.
(d) Because Sally is older and knows more about boys.

7. What has Esperanza decided?
(a) “To grow large and fat.”
(b) “To not grow up tame like the others.”
(c) “To not have babies, ever.”
(d) “To leave Mango Street and never return.”

8. What does Sally do instead of run around with the other kids in the monkey garden?
(a) She flirts with Tito and his friends.
(b) She goes to the library to study.
(c) She goes shopping with her friends.
(d) She goes inside to cook and sew.

9. Who helps her disguise her wounds?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Esperanza.
(d) Her father.

10. Where does she meet him?
(a) At a dance.
(b) At the hospital.
(c) At the movies.
(d) At a bar.

11. What color is her house on Mango Street?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

12. What bird does Esperanza compare Sally’s hair to?
(a) A raven.
(b) A dove.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A peacock.

13. What does Ruthie walk around the neighborhood?
(a) Her cat, Bono.
(b) Her dog, Bobo.
(c) Her ferret, Bilbo.
(d) Her parrot, Billy.

14. Why doesn’t Esperanza want to drive to the nice neighborhoods on Sundays anymore?
(a) She doesn’t like that her father works for the homeowners.
(b) She’s given up hope of every having her own home.
(c) She doesn’t like the way that the houses look.
(d) She’s embarrassed by how much her family wants something that they cannot have.

15. What happened to the monkey?
(a) The owners moved away and took the monkey with them.
(b) It ran away.
(c) It died.
(d) It was stolen from the owners.