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Trashketball. House on Mango Street Review. Rules of Trashketball. Stay in your seats at all times. You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the answer to a question AND Write ONE response to the question on a sheet of paper. All teams will hold up their answers.
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Trashketball House on Mango Street Review
Rules of Trashketball • Stay in your seats at all times. • You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the answer to a question AND • Write ONE response to the question on a sheet of paper. • All teams will hold up their answers. • If you are correct, your team will get the opportunity to shoot the correct response into the trashcan from a 1, 2, or 3 point line. • If the shot is made, the team gets extra-credit. • Shots will be made after ALL the questions have been answered.
1 • Q.1) • Esperanza is named after:
Answer Her great grandmother
2 Esperanza dreams of having:
Answer House of her own
3 • Which one of the following would be used as evidence to support the claim that the House on Mango Street is not what Esperanza wisher for in her dream house? • A. Esperanza thinks the house is too small • B. It’s small and red with tight steps and window so small you’d think they were holding their breath • C. It had real stairs, not hallway stairs • D. We’d have a basement and at least three washrooms
Answer B. It is small and red with tight steps and window so small you’d think they were holding their breath
4 In "The Family of Little Feet," the girls try on high heels and walk around the neighborhood with them. They are having a fun time until what happens?
Answer A bum asks Rachel for a kiss
5 Which one of the following demonstrates personification? • A. We come from Texas • B. Nenny and I don’t look like sisters • C. As if the wheels were spaghetti • D. Not the shy …giggles
Answer D. Not the shy…giggles
6 What type of sandwich does Esperanza bring to lunch the day she gets to eat in the "Canteen" at school?
Answer A rice sandwich
7 Which one of the following demonstrates a simile? A. Two girls raggedy as rats live across the street B. Five dollars, five dollars C. In English my names means hope D. I would like to baptize myself under a new name
Answer A. Two girls raggedy as rats live across the street
8 When the girls are playing double-dutch (jump rope) they begin singing about what?
Answer Hips
9 Esperanza describes her house as “red and crumbly”. What literary device is the author using?
Answer Imagery
10 What is Esperanza's first job?
Answer Developing pictures
11 • What is the significance of the “Four Skinny Trees” vignette?
Answer • It describes her feelings about overcoming obstacles
12 • What does Esperanza and Nenny want to buy at the antiques store (what do the girls call it in the book)?
Answer • A Music Box
13 • What color does Esperanza say her name is like?
Answer • A muddy color
14 • What is the name of the boy Marin dances with at a club? (He is later killed by a hit-and-run accident.)
Answer • Geraldo
15 • How would you descirbe Esperanza's great grandmother?
Answer • Wild and independent
16 • “Until then I am a red balloon tied to an anchor." This figure of speech is an example of:
Answer • A Metaphor
17 • Which character is related to French royalty, and also likes cats?
Answer • Cathy
18 • What two things are Alicia afraid of?
Answer • Mice and Fathers
19 • What family has too many kids and no dad?
Answer • The Vargas family
20 • What does Darius say one of the clouds looks like? • Remember this was something that impressed the others, since Darius is usually not insightful
Answer • God
21 • Louie, who steals a car, is whose cousin?
Answer • Marin
22 • Esperanza has several interactions with nuns in the story. How do the nuns generally make Esperanza feel?
Answer • Ashamed
23 • Why is Esperanza embarrassed at the baptism party?
Answer • Her shoes are old
24 • What does Elenita, the fortune teller, see in Esperanza'a future?
Answer • A home in the heart
