House on Mango Street Flashcards
1
Q
Who won the First Annual Tarzan Jumping contest?
A
Meme
2
Q
Who built the house that Me me lives in?
A
Cathy’s father
3
Q
How many steps are in the front of Meme’s house?
A
21
4
Q
What kind of dog does meme have?
A
sheepdog
5
Q
What is Meme’s real name?
A
Juan
6
Q
Who moves into Cathy’s house?
A
Meme Ortiz
7
Q
What does Nenny want to buy - but Gil tells her it is not for sale?
A
Music box
8
Q
What does Esperanza once buy for a dime?
A
Statue of liberty figurine
9
Q
What did Carlos sell to Gil?
A
Box of magazines
10
Q
What did E’s family buy from Gil’s Furniture?
A
a refrigerator
11
Q
What does E see that reminds her of Mexico?
A
a house
12
Q
How do Nenny and E resemble each other?
A
same laugh
13
Q
What does E think that Rachel and Lucy look like?
A
fat popsicle lips
14
Q
What do they spend the afternoon doing?
A
riding bike
15
Q
Why do they want five dollars from E?
A
to buy a bike
16
Q
From where have the two girls just moved from?
A
Texas
17
Q
What is the “little one’s” name?
A
Rachel
18
Q
What is the “big one’s” name?
A
Lucy
19
Q
Why will Cathy only be E’s friend until next Tuesday?
A
She is moving away
20
Q
Who does she warn Nenny and E to stay away from?
A
Joe - - the baby grabber
21
Q
Who does Cathy believe she is a descendent of?
A
Queen of France
22
Q
What is Nenny’s full name?
A
Magdalena
23
Q
Who wouldn’t marry - - at first?
A
great grandmother
24
Q
Who is E named after?
A
great grandmother
25
In Spanish - - what does E feel like her name means?
sadness or waiting
26
What does E's name mean in English?
Hope
27
At the end of the vignette - she uses a metaphor to compare herself to what?
a red balloon
28
Someday she says she will tell all of her secrets to whom?
her best friend
29
Whom does she describe as best friends?
Kiki and Carlos
30
Who is too young to be her friend?
Nenny
31
E believes that boys and girls live in separate what?
worlds
32
What does Kiki have hair like?
fur
33
How does she describe Nenny's hair?
slippery
34
"My papa's hair is like a broom" - - this is an example of what?
a simile
35
What is E comparing in her family?
hair
36
How does it make E feel when the nun asked - You live there"
"nothing"
37
How does E feel about the house on Mango Street?
Temperature is better than others
38
What is the main topic of the first vignette?
Moving
39
How many siblings does E have?
3
40
How many people are in E's immediate family?
6
41
What is the book "The House on Mango Street" a collection of?
Vignettes
42
When was The House on Mango Street published?
1984
43
Who is the author of The House on Mango Street?
Sandra Cisneros
44
Who lives below Meme in a basement apartment?
Louie's family
45
Louie is the oldest of _____
Little sisters
46
With whom is Louie friends with?
E's brother
47
What happened to the winner of the First Annual Tarzan Jumping contest?
Breaks both arms
48
Why does Marin live with Louie's family?
her family is in Puerto Rico
49
Who drives up in the great big yellow Cadillac?
Louie's older cousin - - a boy
50
Where does Louie's cousin take them on their ride in the Cadillac?
around the block
51
Why do the police handcuff Louie's cousin?
They think he stole the Cadillac
52
Where does Marin's boyfriend live?
Puerto Rico
53
What does Marin do for work to earn money?
Sells avon
54
What does she plan on doing as soon as she gets back to Puerto Rico?
Marry her boyfriend
55
Why are Louie's parents sending Marin back to Puerto Rico next year?
She is too much trouble
56
What does Marin do when her aunt goes to sleep?
Stands under the streetlights and smokes
57
E believes that other people who wander into her neighborhood believe they will be attacked with what?
shiny knives
58
How does she feel when she drives into another neighborhood of "another color"?
scared
59
Who has too many kids?
Rosa Vargas
60
Why does E believe Rosa Vargas is so upset?
Husband left her with kids and no money
61
The Vargas kids are without respect for?
All living things
62
What happens to Angel Vargas?
falls to her death off of a roof
63
What does Alicia believe she sees?
Mice
64
Why must Alicia be the one to wake early to make the lunchbox tortillas?
her mother died and she is the oldest woman in the house
65
What does Alicia inherit from her mother?
rolling pin and sleeplessness
66
What is Alicia afraid of?
Mice and her father
67
What does Darius point out?
that clouds look like pillows
68
Darius believes that one cloud looks like what?
God
69
E reads that Eskimos have 30 different names for what?
snow
70
What does Nenny begin naming during the girl's discussion?
Different types of clouds
71
What happens at the end of their discussion?
get in an argument and tease each other
72
In the family of little feet, who sleeps on the couch?
grandfather
73
What do the girls find in this vignette?
high heels
74
Who walks the best in the high heels?
Rachel
75
Where does E want to eat lunch?
Canteen at school
76
What do the canteen kids wear around their necks?
House keys
77
Why do the canteen kids get to eat lunch at school?
Their moms are not at home
78
Why is E sent to school with a rice sandwich?
Her family does not have meat
79
Who does E have to convince to let her eat at school?
her mother
80
Who is standing at the front door holding boxes and bags of new clothes?
E's mama
81
Where does E;s family go?
a party for the cousin's baptism
82
What has E's mother forgotten to buy?
E;s new shoes
83
What has made E;s mother sick, or so she thinks?
Too many tamales
84
Why doesn't E want to dance?
Embarrassed by school shoes
85
Who does E reluctantly dance with?
Uncle Nacho
86
What does Rachel believe is "good for holding babies while you are cooking?"
Hips
87
Why does E need a job?
To pay tuition at Catholic High School
88
Who encourages her to go to a Catholic high school?
Her father
89
What point of view is The House on Mango Street written?
First person
90
Why will E come back to Mango Street?
For those she left behind
91
What color is her house on Mango Street?
Red
92
What kind of place does E want to live in?
a house quiet as snow
93
Why doesn't Sally leave her apartment?
Afraid to leave without husband's permission
94
Where does Sally get married?
To a state that allows marriage before 8th grade
95
Why does E like to be with Sally?
They are friends - she likes her laugh
96
What does Tito's mother do when E goes to her house?
iron shirts
97
What does she tell the school about her marks?
She fell
98
Who hits Sally?
her father
99
What is E's mothers advice for her?
go to school and study hard
100
What did E's mother used to do?
Sing Opera
101
How has E "begun her own quiet war?"
gender expectation
102
Wht or whom will she allow to live in her attic?
Bums
103
What does E promise to never forget?
Where she came from
104
Why is Minerva black and blue?
her husband beats her
105
What is the age difference between Minerva and E?
Minerva is a little older
106
Who does E compare Rafaela to?
Rapunzel
107
Why doesn't Rafaela leave her apartment?
her husband locks her in
108
Why does E find trees so miraculous?
They grow well with very little to sustain them
109
Where does Earl live and work?
Edna's basement
110
What does Ruthie ask the girls to buy at the grocery store?
Candy
111
Which adult likes to play with children?
Ruthie
112
How does Geraldo die?
hit and run accident
113
Where does Geraldo work?
a restaurant
114
Where does she meet him?
at a dance
115
Who meets Geraldo?
Marin
116
What does Elenita tell E?
To have home in your heart
117
Why does E go to a fortune teller?
Know about future house
118
Who is Elenita?
a fortune teller
119
Who listens to E's stories?
Aunt Lupe
120
What did Aunt Lupe enjoy before she was sick?
swimming
121
E is overcome with grief - why?
because she thinks of her own father's death
122
Who crumples like a coat and cries?
E's papa
123
Who gets E a job?
Aunt LaLa
124
What does E lie about the first day of her new job?
her age
125
Where is E's new job?
Peter Pan Photo finishers
126
Who kisses E?
an oriental man
127
Who dies?
E's abuelito (grandfather)
128
Whose father dies?
E's father's father
