2. Where does Sally get married?
(a) In a park.
(b) In a state that allows girls to get married before the eighth grade.
(c) In the local church.
(d) In Las Vegas.

3. Esperanza describes the color of illness as being what?
(a) Black.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Green.
(d) White.

4. How does Geraldo die?
(a) He has influenza.
(b) In a hit-and-run accident.
(c) He was stabbed.
(d) Alcohol poisoning.

5. What can’t Esperanza’s mother do despite living in the city all her life?
(a) Find her way to the art museum.
(b) She doesn’t know how to take the subway train downtown.
(c) Read a map.
(d) Take the bus home from the grocery store.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Esperanza describe the siren archetype in movies?

2. What does Minerva do after her children have gone to sleep?

3. What are Alicia and Esperanza talking about in this vignette?

4. Why does Esperanza find these trees so miraculous?

5. When does Earl work?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why can’t Esperanza, her mother, and other neighbors and kids agree on what Earl’s “wife” looks like?

2. What does it mean that both Esperanza is getting noticed by boys, and that she notices them watching her?

3. How does Esperanza’s perspective affect the information readers are given in this chapter?

4. Why does her Aunt Lupe tell her that writing will keep her free?

5. Why does Esperanza believe Mamacita is sad?

6. Why does Esperanza say she’ll allow “bums in the attic”?

7. One of the aunts tells Esperanza that she will always be Mango Street. What did she mean by this?

8. Why does Esperanza’s father call Sire a punk?

9. What is Sally’s relationship like with her parents?

10. Why isn’t Rafaela allowed to leave her apartment?

(see the answer keys)

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