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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The heroine of “You or No One” is also said to be in commercials for what product in the story?
(a) Bayer aspirin
(b) Lubriderm lotion
(c) Bic razors
(d) Suave shampoo

2. In the town where Cleofilas grew up, the narrator says “there isn’t very much to do except accompany the aunts and godmothers to the house of one or the other to” do what?
(a) Talk and gossip
(b) Listen to the radio
(c) Play cards
(d) Cook food

3. What is the name of the woman who drowns her children in the legend of “La Llorona”?
(a) Maria
(b) Felice
(c) Soledad
(d) Trini

4. When did Hernan Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors conquer the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan?
(a) 1784
(b) 1649
(c) 1308
(d) 1521

5. Graciela asks her friend to take Cleofilas to what bus station?
(a) The Amtrak Station
(b) The Arroyo Station
(c) The Greyhound Station
(d) The Corpus Station

6. Cleofilas considers that her husband and the other men at the bar are “nightly trying to find the truth lying at the bottom of the bottle like” what?
(a) A friend in a grave
(b) A stone on a mountaintop
(c) A ring in a drainpipe
(d) A gold doubloon on the sea floor

7. What is the name of the wealthy son that the heroine of Maria de Nadie falls in love with?
(a) Enrique Antonio
(b) Victor Silvio
(c) Horacio Pedro
(d) Juan Carlos

8. In comparing Seguin, Texas to her hometown, Cleofilas notes that in Seguin there is no “huddled whispering on the church steps each Sunday” because here the whispering begins where at sunset?
(a) The courthouse
(b) The riverbank
(c) The ice house
(d) The grocery store

9. In comparing Seguin, Texas to her hometown, Cleofilas notes that the houses are what?
(a) Closer together in Seguin
(b) Further apart in Seguin
(c) Dingier in Seguin
(d) More ornate in Seguin

10. The thoughts of Cleofilas’ father in the opening of “Woman Hollering Creek” are an example of what literary device?
(a) Biblical allusion
(b) Foreshadowing
(c) Assonance
(d) Mixed metaphor

11. What is the name of Cleofilas’ maid of honor at her wedding?
(a) Felice
(b) Lucia
(c) Soledad
(d) Chela

12. Cleofilas considers her hometown to be “The town of gossips. The town of dust and” what?
(a) Demons
(b) Deceit
(c) Despair
(d) Devils

13. Cleofilas laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there is no what in sight?
(a) Screaming harpy
(b) Happy ending
(c) Loving family
(d) Handsome suitor

14. Of the men at the bar, the narrator says “If they are lucky, there are” what “at the end of the long night”?
(a) Hugs
(b) Revelations
(c) Tears
(d) Fights

15. Of Woman Hollering Creek, the narrator says that “no one could say whether the woman had hollered from anger or” what?
(a) Pain
(b) Confusion
(c) Pity
(d) Sadness

Short Answer Questions

1. Felice says that the name of Woman Hollering Creek makes her want to “holler like” whom?

2. How is Juan Pedro said to laugh, according to the narrator?

3. The cover of a Mexican news–magazine that depicts graphic images of death and mutilation is described by the narrator as having a lover on the cover photographed with what object that “she used to salvage her good name”?

4. What Spanish phrase in the narrative translates to “bad luck”?

5. The narrator describes the character of Maximiliano how in the story?

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