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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. Why doesn’t Rafaela leave her apartment?
2. Who helps her disguise her wounds?
3. Where does Earl live?
4. How does Geraldo die?
5. What can’t Esperanza’s mother do despite living in the city all her life?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why isn’t Rafaela allowed to leave her apartment?
2. Who is Geraldo?
3. Why does Esperanza’s father call Sire a punk?
4. Esperanza wants a nice house and wants to live on a hill, but she believes that she’ll be different than the others who do so. How does she believe that she will be different?
5. Why is Esperanza’s Aunt Lupe an important person to her?
6. What does it mean that both Esperanza is getting noticed by boys, and that she notices them watching her?
7. How does Esperanza’s perspective affect the information readers are given in this chapter?
8. How does Sally defy her parents?
9. Esperanza has her fortune told, and Elenita tells her that she sees a “home in the heart”. What could this mean for Esperanza’s future?
10. One of the aunts tells Esperanza that she will always be Mango Street. What did she mean by this?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Toward the end of the book, Esperanza says this: "I have begun my own quiet war. Simple. Sure. I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate" (Chapter 35, pg. 89). How is this quote indicative of who Esperanza is currently, and who she will become?
Essay Topic 2
Esperanza is named after her great-grandmother. What happens to Esperanza’s great-grandmother? Why doesn’t Esperanza want to be named after her?
Essay Topic 3
Dramatic irony is when the reader understands that there is an ironic situation, but not the character. This occurs a lot when the narrator is young but the content observed by the narrator is mature. What are some examples of dramatic irony in The House on Mango Street?
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