The House on Mango Street pp.3-38

Right or Wrong: The narrator had always lived on Mango Street.

• Right

• Wrong

Answer explanation

At the beginning of the novel we're told they lived on Loomis, Keeler and Paulina before moving to Mango Street.

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CCSS.RL.1.6

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Is the rent very expensive?

• Yes

• We don't know

• There is no rent - they own the house

• No

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CCSS.RL.3.1

How many brothers and sisters does the narrator have?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

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Right or Wrong: The house on Mango Street corresponds to the narrator's dreams?

• Right

• Wrong

Answer explanation

She had hoped for a house with many bedrooms and bathrooms and with real stairs.

The narrator compares the smell of her mother's hair to the smell of...

• tuna

• chocolate

• mushrooms

• bread

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The narrator's brothers are called...

• Carlos & Mickey

• Carl and Kiki

• Carlos and Kiki

• Carl and Mickey

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The narrator tells us that she can't let Nanny "play with those Vargas kids or she'll turn out just like them." This means...

• the Vargas kids are not respectable

• the Vargas kids are no fun

• the Vargas kids don't like Nanny

• the Vargas kids are dirty

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The narrator's name is...

• Angelina

• Esperanza

• Selma

• Kenny

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CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

She was named after her...

• great-grandmother

• grandmother

• mother

• aunt

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Her great-grandmother had a difficult life because...

• she was a bank-robber and spent a lot of time in jail

• she was forced to marry against her will and spent the rest of her life sitting by the window

• she lost her mother's ring when she was young and she always believed this brought her bad luck

• she had many children and not very much money

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