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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has died at the beginning of this vignette?

2. What is The House on Mango Street a collection of?

3. Who kisses Esperanza?

4. Who moves into Cathy’s house?

5. Who has too many kids?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Esperanza afraid of at the end of this vignette?

2. What is Marin, Esperanza’s neighbor, waiting for?

3. Why do the girls begin arguing?

4. What does Esperanza get in this chapter that she’s been wanting?

5. Why does she take a rice sandwich to school?

6. Why doesn’t Esperanza want to dance?

7. Why does Esperanza believe that the boys and girls in her neighborhood live in separate worlds?

8. How does Esperanza describe her mother’s hair? What is her mother’s hair a metaphor for?

9. Why is everyone surprised by Darius’s observations of the clouds?

10. Who is Esperanza?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Esperanza is dissatisfied with her life, or at least her living situation. Why is she dissatisfied? What does she want? And, will she or won’t she most likely succeed?

Essay Topic 2

Many of the vignettes are a discussion of family. How important is family to Esperanza? How does she feel about her family?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the characters in the book and examine his/her real life. How does the author represent him/her in the novel? Is this an accurate representation of the character?

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