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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What flowers in Dolores’ garden have a sad scent that “reminded Cleofilas of the dead”?
(a) Orchids
(b) Cockscombs
(c) Roses
(d) Sunflowers

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

3. What does “La Llorona” translate to in English?
(a) Kind person
(b) The Weeping Woman
(c) Insightful woman
(d) The contented one

4. In Graciela’s phone call in the third section of the story, she tells her friend she can’t talk louder because she’s where?
(a) At school
(b) In church
(c) At work
(d) At the library

5. Woman Hollering Creek is known as the creek one passes on their way where, according to the narrator?
(a) Laredo, Texas
(b) San Antonio, Texas
(c) Seguin, Texas
(d) Austin, Texas

6. Cleofilas thinks as she laments her unhappy marriage, “Everything happened to women with names like” what?
(a) Poetry
(b) Birds
(c) Jewels
(d) Europeans

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

8. What is one of the central themes in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Political corruption
(b) Parental revenge
(c) Globalization
(d) Victimization

9. What is Cleofilas doing when Maximiliano makes a rude gesture implying she needs to have sex?
(a) Cooking dinner
(b) Sewing
(c) Reading a book
(d) Washing dishes

10. How is Juan Pedro said to laugh, according to the narrator?
(a) Loudly
(b) Cautiously
(c) Maniacally
(d) Softly

11. Cleofilas and Juan Pedro plan to get married in what season?
(a) Winter
(b) Autumn
(c) Summer
(d) Spring

12. In the second section of the story, the narrator speaks in direct address to the reader, asking “Did you watch last night’s episode of” what show?
(a) Days of Our Lives
(b) The Rich Also Cry
(c) The Farmer’s Wife
(d) The Bold and the Beautiful

13. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro’s face is still scarred from what?
(a) The sun
(b) Knife fights
(c) Acne
(d) War

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

15. What is Cleofilas’ full name in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Cleofilas Enriqueta DeLeon Hernandez
(b) Cleofilas Chiquita Ramirez Sanchez
(c) Cleofilas Isabella Rodriguez Martinez
(d) Cleofilas Juanita Ortiz Gomez

Short Answer Questions

1. Felice tells Cleofilas that she used to have what kind of car?

2. The heroine of “You or No One” is also said to be in commercials for what product in the story?

3. In the telenovela Maria de Nadie, the heroine has the ill fortune of falling in love with the beautiful son of what family?

4. What Spanish phrase from the story translates to “my darling”?

5. Who does Graciela make a phone call to in the third section of the story?

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