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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What genre of which Sandra Cisneros is associated, refers to literature written by Mexican Americans in the United States?
(a) Spanish literature
(b) Absurdist literature
(c) Chicano literature
(d) Modernist literature

2. In the telenovela Maria de Nadie, the heroine is a poor country girl from where?
(a) Ecuador
(b) Argentina
(c) Brazil
(d) Peru

3. How does Cleofilas feel about the name of Woman Hollering Creek?
(a) Offended
(b) Terrified
(c) Uninterested
(d) Fascinated

4. What does the Spanish word “viejas” translate to in English?
(a) Beautiful girl
(b) Dirty boy
(c) Old women
(d) Gentleman

5. Dolores’ garden is famous for what flowers that must be supported with broom handles and old boards?
(a) Orchids
(b) Cockscombs
(c) Roses
(d) Sunflowers

6. Cleofilas tells her husband that she has a doctor’s appointment on what day of the week and asks him to take her?
(a) Friday
(b) Monday
(c) Wednesday
(d) Tuesday

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

8. Cleofilas imagines that who will be jealous of her after she’s moved to America and has a nice house?
(a) Trini
(b) Chela
(c) Soledad
(d) Felice

9. Sandra Cisneros’ anthology Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories was published in what year?
(a) 1991
(b) 1975
(c) 2002
(d) 1983

10. When was Sandra Cisneros born?
(a) 1941
(b) 1954
(c) 1946
(d) 1935

11. Who does the truck belong to that Felice picks Cleofilas up in?
(a) Felice
(b) Graciela
(c) Maria
(d) Soledad

12. Dolores’ husband is said to have died from what in the story?
(a) Emphysema
(b) Cancer
(c) A heart attack
(d) Grief

13. In what year did Mexico win independence from Spain?
(a) 1805
(b) 1821
(c) 1776
(d) 1844

14. Cleofilas is looking for her maid of honor to fulfill what conspiracy in the opening of the story?
(a) Their bouquet conspiracy
(b) Their childhood dream conspiracy
(c) Their marriage conspiracy
(d) Their hopeful conspiracy

15. What does the name Graciela mean in Spanish?
(a) Gecko
(b) Green
(c) Grace
(d) Grain

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cleofilas’ father say to her “in the hubbub of parting” in the beginning of the story?

2. The creek that runs behind Cleofilas’ house in America is called what in Spanish?

3. What does “La Llorona” translate to in English?

4. What Spanish phrase from the story translates to “that life”?

5. The first time that Juan Pedro beats Cleofilas, the narrator describes her lip bleeding like what?

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