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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Cleofilas’ son in the story?
(a) Alejandro Eduardo
(b) Ricardo Xavier
(c) Juan Pedrito
(d) Guillermo Clemente

2. It is pointed out in “Woman Hollering Creek” that Cleofilas does not speak what language?
(a) English
(b) Spanish
(c) Mandarin
(d) Italian

3. What Spanish phrase from the story translates to “my darling”?
(a) Que vida
(b) La consentida
(c) Mal aire
(d) Mi querida

4. What does the Spanish word “pues” translate to in English?
(a) Lift
(b) Well
(c) Make
(d) Accept

5. What item does Cleofilas lament not having in her home with Juan Pedro in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) A dishwasher
(b) A radio
(c) A television
(d) A washing machine

6. What does Cleofilas sip “until it grows warm” when she accompanies her husband to the bar in their first year of marriage?
(a) A glass of whiskey
(b) A beer
(c) Gin and tonic
(d) A margarita

7. At what time is Cleofilas’ doctor’s appointment when she goes to see about the health of her second pregnancy?
(a) 3:30
(b) 5:30
(c) 2:00
(d) 4:00

8. What does the laundromat attendant first yell at Cleofilas for, according to the narrator?
(a) Hanging her clothes to dry
(b) Leaving the machines unattended
(c) Putting too much soap in the machines
(d) Overloading the machines

9. The narrative of “Woman Hollering Creek” is related primarily from what point of view?
(a) Third person
(b) Second person
(c) Fourth person
(d) First person

10. How does Cleofilas feel about Felice?
(a) She disapproves of her
(b) She is frightened of her
(c) She dislikes her
(d) She is amazed by her

11. Cleofilas laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there are no what for comic relief?
(a) Clown characters
(b) Commercials
(c) Funny romances
(d) Illegitimate affairs

12. What does Cleofilas twist into knots, fans, and roses when she accompanies her husband to the bar in their first year of marriage?
(a) Napkins
(b) Thread
(c) Her hair
(d) Newspapers

13. Felice says that the name of Woman Hollering Creek makes her want to “holler like” whom?
(a) Tarzan
(b) A banshee
(c) A monkey
(d) Yosemite Sam

14. Cleofilas was born and raised in what Mexican state?
(a) Sonora
(b) Coahuila
(c) Tabasco
(d) Michoacán

15. What Spanish phrase from the story translates to “that life”?
(a) Mala suerte
(b) Tu o Nadie
(c) Entiendes? Pues
(d) Que vida

Short Answer Questions

1. The name “Dolores” means what in Spanish?

2. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro is not very tall and doesn’t look like the men on what?

3. What genre of which Sandra Cisneros is associated, refers to literature written by Mexican Americans in the United States?

4. Dolores’ garden is famous for what flowers that must be supported with broom handles and old boards?

5. By what term does the narrator refer to the local bar where Juan Pedro drinks?

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