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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Corin Tellado published more than how many novels in her lifetime?
(a) 750
(b) 1,200
(c) 4,000
(d) 2,250

2. Who does Cleofilas suggests writing to ask for money for the new baby’s expenses?
(a) Her mother
(b) Her father
(c) Juan Pedro’s father
(d) Juan Pedro’s mother

3. At what time does Graciela’s friend agree to meet Cleofilas to take her to the bus station?
(a) 12:00 p.m.
(b) 7:30 a.m.
(c) 10:30 a.m.
(d) 1:30 p.m.

4. What is Cleofilas’ presumed destination at the end of “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Her husband’s house
(b) Her mother’s house
(c) Her daughter’s house
(d) Her father’s house

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

6. What town does Juan Pedro take Cleofilas to live in after they wed?
(a) Austin, Texas
(b) Seguin, Texas
(c) Laredo, Texas
(d) Dallas, Texas

7. What does the name Felice mean?
(a) Flower
(b) Happiness
(c) Insight
(d) Mountain

8. On what day of the week does Graciela’s friend agree to take Cleofilas to the bus station?
(a) Saturday
(b) Thursday
(c) Monday
(d) Sunday

9. The character of Felice represents what to Cleofilas in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Independence
(b) Inadequacy
(c) Adultery
(d) Abuse

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

11. In the telenovela Maria de Nadie, the heroine has the ill fortune of falling in love with the beautiful son of what family?
(a) The Morales family
(b) The Hernandez family
(c) The Arrocha family
(d) The Ortiz family

12. Of Cleofilas, the narrator says, “Sometimes she thinks of her father’s house. But how could she go back there?” She considers that doing so would be what?
(a) Committing suicide
(b) A disgrace
(c) A confession
(d) Returning to a captor

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

14. Cleofilas longs to change her name to something that is more what?
(a) Classical
(b) Poetic
(c) Mystical
(d) Direct

15. What does the narrator say Cleofilas had always said she would do “if a man, any man, were to strike her”?
(a) Call the police
(b) Run away
(c) Use pepper spray
(d) Strike back

Short Answer Questions

1. In the beginning of the story, Cleofilas’ father imagines her one day dreaming of returning to what “that never ended”?

2. Woman Hollering Creek is known as the creek one passes on their way where, according to the narrator?

3. Graciela’s friend agrees to meet Cleofilas at a business by what interstate in order to take her to the bus station?

4. On the nights when Juan Pedro does not come home, Cleofilas is said to lie on “her side of the bed listening to the hollow roar of” what?

5. What flowers in Dolores’ garden are described as “fringed and bleeding a thick menstrual color”?

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