2. Why does Esperanza believe Mamacita won’t come down from her apartment?
(a) She is too sick to leave.
(b) Esperanza believes she is afraid to speak English.
(c) Her baby is too sick to leave.
(d) She doesn’t like Mango Street.

3. How has Esperanza “begun her own quiet war”?
(a) By defying her parents’ desires.
(b) By refusing to do what her teachers tell her to do.
(c) By befriending only girls.
(d) By challenging gender expectations and roles.

4. What does Esperanza promise to never forget?
(a) Sally's sadness.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Who she is or where she came from.
(d) Angel Vargas.

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

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

7. Who comes to get Sally when she’s staying with Esperanza’s family?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her husband.

8. Why does Esperanza go to the fortune-teller?
(a) To see how long she will live.
(b) She wants to know about her future house.
(c) To see if her mama gets better.
(d) She wants to know how many children she will have.

9. What do they make a clubhouse out of?
(a) An old blue pickup.
(b) A shed.
(c) Vine overgrowth.
(d) An apple tree.

10. What is wrong with Mamacita?
(a) She is ill with a rare disease.
(b) She has no food to eat.
(c) She is homesick.
(d) Her little baby is sick.

11. Who dies?
(a) Rachel and Lucy’s mother.
(b) Rachel and Lucy's cousin.
(c) Rachel and Lucy’s grandmother.
(d) Rachel and Lucy’s baby sister.

12. 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 doesn’t like the way that the houses look.
(c) She’s given up hope of every having her own home.
(d) She’s embarrassed by how much her family wants something that they cannot have.

13. Who is the landlord of the apartment buildings?
(a) Joe, the baby grabber.
(b) Edna, Ruthie’s mother.
(c) Sally’s father.
(d) Esperanza’s papa.

14. What does Esperanza’s papa call Sire?
(a) A punk.
(b) A gang-banger.
(c) A loser.
(d) A jerk.

15. Why is Minerva black and blue?
(a) She is very clumsy.
(b) She is sick with cancer.
(c) Her children beat her.
(d) Her husband beats her.